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Show WATER LOWERED ON' mi WRECK HAVANA. June C The first stace of the actual work of uncovoring tho wreck of the battleship Maine was completed at 5 o'clock this afternoon, when pumping operatlona'ccascd aftor the "water lovel within thecyffordam han been lowered five feet. '- 1 This leaves the portion or,the wreck visible above the water practically the same as on the night of tho disaster before the vessol had time to become Imbedded in tho mud. All the newly exposed portions are covered with bar-naclos bar-naclos and a rank marine vegetation, tho removal of which Is necessary for sanitary reasons beforo decomposition sets In. The pumping Is to be sus- , pended until Juno 15, after which it will continue at Intervals until the bottom bot-tom Is reached, probably three or four weeks honce. |