| Show Assistant Enrins Story Kansas City Mo Fell 21ohn 1 Moris one 01 the Assistant engineers on the battleship Maine In a letter to tile sister In Kansas city Kns written at Key West Saturday last tells of his eijwrlences In the disaster Morris does not speculate us to tho cause ot the disaster or Intimate In Any way whether or not the ship wna blown up by design He says In part We have just heard that In all probability l 1 soon n we testify be lore i the board of Investigation which convenes tomorrow all survivors ivlll le ordered to their home for a short time The mhole affair Is I too Bad to wrlte In detail about and none of its know the cause 01 the destruction I we do get home will probably be hen within a wk and home In ten days All 01 us had to a certain extent very different experiences and all of the officers and men who Awere ar and they were practically the only ones spared mere for a 1m I In a Befill eonclou tate I was sitting on the upper deck nt the time talking to another officer and at the first explosion nnd whether there waR more than one I do not kwne ere thrown headlong ont on-t lie deck The smoke slock from the live boilers fell so that the top of the funnel wn lying just forward 01 us And 01 tOI 01 tire after turret In talking Afterwards We found that both had pract I era fly tire Same experience ex-perience Tvr time that we would gain our let we mould come In contact con-tact with escaping gases and Ner suffocated and would fall again |
