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Show SAYS DESTRUCTION OF MAINE COMPLETE Tam'pa, Fla., Juno 20. "The Becret of the destruction of the battleship Maine will never bo known," said General W. II. Blxby, chief of engineers engin-eers In charge of tho work of raising the Maine, on his arrival hero from Havana. Ti.o destruction to the vessel was such, says Generd Blxby, and tlio do-Uiloratlon do-Uiloratlon haa btcn so great ti.t it v..j ship was blown up from a force it will be In.iiosnulo to tell whethet . thin or without, ihe greatest forco, however, was from tho Inside. Indicating Indicat-ing that tho forward magazine hud exploded. ex-ploded. Whether this was from a sympathetic sym-pathetic explosion caused by 'a torpedo tor-pedo from the outside, may forever remain re-main a niystery. General Blxby says that unless the fragment of a torpedo Is found, thero Is no wny of connecting somo outsldo agency with tho blowing up of the vessel. "We do not expect to find any human" remains." General Blxby said "Tho crews' compartments have disappeared dis-appeared entirely." |
