Show I R Rf f MI G L St St Petersburg Authorities cring From Th t Fol Followed ol lowed lowel Last Weeks s Disaster STILL IN DOUBT AS TO CAUSE I Strong Disinclination Exists to Admit That tle Japs Could lime Hac The St Petersburg April 1 1 1 40 0 p 1 m Tho hero her are Ire recovering from the depression which followed tho last disaster seem Im Imbued 11 bl 1 wih new IO and feverish energy The greatest activity let 11 Tho public Is Ii moro than nt II any the tho war fr I and now Is thirsting for tor revenge ICIle Crowds gath ath ather cr er on the streets Tho ho HUSH extra bul bulletin letin letl boards nto no constantly surround ed cd cl I although ni hough little Ille frosh news Is 18 post poat posted Tho jho vivid 11 of oC the boat hoat light ami disaster transmitted l froin u I correspondent of ot the tho Associated tl Press under date of ot Mao Yang Manchuria last night Is 11 here h l and Is the tho talk of ot fit HI of or and private circles tho first con account published 1 It I also nisI con tallied the tho first I definite tf ni c Information that Ico Admiral at ut his hlA rest rost on tho bridge so when hn the explosion occurred It I put nt ot rest all ni doubts im n to the chip aB Khe went down bow as ns the Vic Victoria Ie toria did and 1111 exactly as own model did when during a I lecture which lm hn delivered In 1891 18 I ho demon Minted tho Instability of ot heavily ar armored n mored ships and the tho Impossibility nt tho time of ot a II disaster by hy collision with tOcKS rocKs or ot or re the Ihu equilibrium of leh Rte 1 monsters admiralty still data ns n to 10 tho COWl cause of ot tha tho al although II though tho talk of at a boiler boier explosion and boatH boatA continues Tho Jho public shows nn Indisposition tn to accept Admiral Admirl version erlon that Ills his mines were responsible of ot the naval staff frankly admit that thy they do 10 not know the i of ot the disaster ter tN but hul some of at them thI aro In Inclined to the that tho probability enc ene mys Is true Irue tho m s tl r wi bo 1 of ot your Maine cald sahl n member r of ot tho III naval staff tn to the th corn of ot the Associated It I will wi nn of o otho tho hull In determine whether the ex explosion IJ wax OR interim or external I CANT CA 1 AMOW TO TOnO CLAIM Crl I I Ihl The hl ronson t the staff WIS nt n I first to 10 accept the of at claim was If It true the mines mil were not l l only without dis discovery covery but hit without oven th tho t suspicion report as ns in to the nU alan the Iou loas of C tho ho lov lc HI U I It I on 01 April 13 TOKO oo also claims that a I attack 10 made on 11 Pott t Arthur April 11 II which Is 1 do donled 1101 The he general stuff tle has no Information mation moton In II regard to tha til n of ot Japanese of oN Yin ow the p rt nf oC A Ip from Port 01 Iho cruiser Ila layon nn hir hll trial d when she nt out olt to tn tIle Hie of o the torpedo boat hoal il trier Tho flo same somo 1 Itch thil a I cruiser 11 sunk add adding Idd ing that tho cause IN IR unknown 0 11 The Vrem n hos in ex export port pelt tho Impossibility and futility of ot trying to 10 ralso tho Petro l as n sho ho lies 1 1 SINI OF o rm SHIP HiI In the dramatic description of ot tho of o the nt ot Port Arthur wired from rom Llao Mio last Int night by h u I of tho dated Press Jre H n 1 of oC Ihu account It I Is I n ni follows Moving nt lt reduced the JilO 1 lok ramo om abreast of l cliff clr Tho Iho torpedo boats lero vero the tho harbor when suddenly from tho star board side hlo nf of ho bov bol u I white column shot up W wal IH a I pion the Ilg cov Col cred rot with brown tiring a br a 1 standing beside br llo me 11 hut but through my binoculars I speechless und horror stricken could see Aeo fragments of ot wreck ago o o falling from above tho thu broken rig rigging ging ginI of ut the th foremast and llames lamos ot fire Iro shooting sh out singing sinking walled someone beside me meThe meThe The began to settle lote slowly by 1 the thc head heeling far over U 10 starboard until her hN lall mi wan under wa water WI ter Her Ir bow bol had already dl and nov no the foremast was WS I could still two the conning tower her hor smoKestacks dl disappeared rhe d to t fall through thu water am the th sea In began 1 to 10 engulf the tho mainmast HIT Bur turret with Its IH guns gun pointing skyward Hk nCI vanished then her tem stern with Iho lio port propeller still sti m fO 1 I could see figures desperately clutching clutch In at lt thu tho slippery hull hul am tongues of o lame lame A h t explosion am nil ni was lM o OWl r The he flagship hll was no more 1011 from the torpedo destroyer hurried to the seen lE of oC tho disaster It I was WAi 40 o minutes past pat In III tho morning |