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Show STRENGTHEN DAM AROUND MAINE WRECK HAVANA, June 27. The work es the wreck of th battleship Main Is still eonflaed tn balaaciag th eon-tents eon-tents of th cylinders, eaalking sad dumping into the cofferdam brokea stn. Som apprehension waa felt today because be-cause of the report from the weather observatory at Santa Clara of aa sp- proaebiag eyclene. All precautions were taken. While s blow doubtless would imperil the dags, much depeada upon the direction from which the wind comes. It would be moat eerioua front the north. Surprise haa been expresssd here by the opinions attributed to General Bix-bv, Bix-bv, chief of the engineers in charge ef th work of raising the Maine, who upon hia arrival at Tampa waa quoted as saving that he did aot expect that the secret of the Maine's destruction would be revealed er that bodies would be recovered. The sngi seers here feet that th (rat belief is aot fully justified in advance ad-vance of th exposure of th ship's bottom. They also hava strong expectation ex-pectation of discovering the bone of many sailors when th berth deck nad th aectioa below is reaeked. |