Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-08 | Page 3 | Merrimac Wreck Destroyed

I nr Hundred hi ol nt mm 1111 inKo lii Ito In III Her I and Kei H OIT Santiago do Cuba Culm April 7 hundred of ot dynamite were vere used usell yesterday In blowing up tho time forward of ot tho time sunken United States collier which hUh long Impeded the tIme entrance to the har imar harbor bar bor Jor Till Tile explosion van ios plainly In him the city dU live miles s away awny Divers Diver Im imm Immediately mediately descended and found forty fotty feet fet of oC clear water r over the forward portion of the wreck port Capt lr Irvin lit v will III begin tomorrow to place mines aft which he hI expects to explode In a week thus completely clearing tho the en Ill entrance trance I Yesterdays Incident was all highly blehl spec sic spectacular on nn Smith Key iCey ad nil adjacent jacent to the wreck left lert the Island t that their heir haute would l I be de do demolished The Tuiti overlooking hills hilI were with lIh people and lind large number eM of If encircled the wreck nt at a safe distance When time the electric button was touched a 11 pyramid of wa water A AI tot ter rose rosl forty tort l feet feel anti and the tile surface wa Watt Immediately covered with wreckage nail tons of if dead clai fish The Time launches and yachts returned to the time city laden with souvenirs of at time the wreck