Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-17 | Page 5 | How the Hulk of the Maine Appears with Six Feet of Water Pumped out of Giant

HOW THE HULK OF THE MAINE APPEARS WITH SIX FEET H OF WATER PUMPED OUT OF GIANT DAM INCLOSING HER P-mn', rim ' ;$&& ;llmfe;4 Ii , : M mm '' .':-.i .,v . .Hf m m "' ' ' l- iJflSt 2 - '' ' jt4J' mm7 1 S iBBESfHiP eRu TKucTue. of the. Mfsmer . mKi-'MR H HAVANA, Cuba, June 15. The United States annj ofTlcors. huve begun be-gun pumping water out of tne immense wator-tlght enclosure they have built around tho hulk of the United States warship Maine, sunk In Havana harbor, har-bor, and the upper decka and their ruins aro now above tho surface. Tho nccoinpanylng photo shows the wreck ns It appears with about six- foot or wntor drawn put After pumping fiom five to six feet out tho engineers suspended sus-pended operations to Inspect the wallB ot tne great dnm It Is estimated that ;fi3&i.-i. ' i ' !.. i .. tho entire hulk as it rests on tho hot torn of tho harbor will be exposed lo view In from two to three weeks WASHINGTON. Juno 15 The navy dopartmont Is btnicd hero to bo in favor fa-vor of burying the hulk of the Malno at sea after It hns'been raised and thoroughly exnmlucd . - HAVANA. luno 15 That tho shattering shat-tering of the bull or the battleship Mnlne 'Js ovldcntly far greater than supposed was revealed this aftornoon as a result of a superficial observation m-liiij gasag?sk Jr-' 7 i i. i J , i t hi i.y--1 made posbible by the lowering of the water level In the cofferdam, n total depth or seveu feeL As the water receded re-ceded todaj ovorj successive foot re-oaIed re-oaIed worse and worst conditions in that portion of the hull forward of midships, which was subjected to tho ninlu force of the explosion. Tho bow section is utlll nearly 20 feet below tho surface, and here, It Is belloved, the destruction will be found to have been moro complete. Colonel Blnok of the engineering corps said thlb evening even-ing that he had reasonable expectation of lowering tho water to a total depth of IS or 20 feet wRhin thrco or H four davs. which would render possible H a fairly complcto exploration or all por- H tlons of the ship where mon wore like- H y to have been on tho night of the ex- H plosion, except the bow. It is prob- H able thnt the searchers maj- bo nblo H to enter the officers' quarters In tho after structuro tomorrow, where thej H mnv find the body of Enslcn Merrltt. the' only officer missing, the body of H Lieutenant .Tonkins, tho only officer H killod, having been recovered from H the torpedo chamber shortly aftor tho H explosion, H