FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS OF THE "MAINE" DISASTER.

THE COURT OF INQUIRY INTO THE FATE OF THE "MAINE" IN SESSION.

Wagner, Henry, first sergeant.
Bennet, John, private.
Botting, Vincent H., private.
Brosnan, George, private.
Burns, James R., private.
Brown, James T., sergeant.
Dierking, John H., drummer.
Downing, Michael J., private.
Johnson, Charles E., private.
Jordan, William J., private.
Kean, Edward F., private.
Kelly, Frank, private.

Lauriette, George M., private.

Losko, Peter A., private.

MARINES.

Monahan, Joseph P., private.
McDermott, John, private.
Newton, C. H., fifer.
Newman, F. J., private.
Richter, A. H., corporal.
Roberts, James H., private.
Schoen, Joseph, corporal.
Stock, H. E., private.
Strongman, James, private.
Suman, E. B., private.
Timpany, E. B., private.
Van Horn, H. A., private.
Warren, Asa V., private.
Wills, A. O., private.

LIST OF OFFICERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES ON BOARD OF THE U. S. S. MAINE WHO WERE SAVED.

Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, commanding.

Lieut. Commander Richard Wainwright.

Lieuts. George F. W. Holman, John Hood, and Carl W. Jungen.

Lieuts. (Junior Grade) George P. Blow, John J. Blandin.

Naval Cadets Jonas H. Holden, Watt T. Cluverius, Amon Bronson, and

David F. Boyd, Jr.

Surg. Lucien G. Heneberger.

Paymaster Charles M. Ray.

Chief Engineer Charles P. Howell.

Passed Assistant Engineer Frederic C. Bowers.

Assistant Engineer John R. Morris.

Naval Cadets (engineer division) Pope Washington and Arthur Crenshaw. Chaplain John P. Chidwick.

First Lieut. of Marines Albertus W. Catlin.

Boatswain Francis E. Larkin.

Gunner Joseph Hill.

Carpenter George Helms.
Pay Clerk B. McCarty.

Allen, James W., mess attendant.
Anderson, Oskar, cockswain.
Awo, Firsanion, steerage cook.

SAILORS.

Bergman, Charles, boatswain's mate, first class.

Bloomer, John H., landsman.

SAILORS-CONTINUED.

Bullock, Charles H., gunner's mate, Lohman, Charles A., coal passer. second class.

Cahill, Francis D., landsman.

Mack, Thomas, landsman.

Matsen, Edward, ordinary seaman.

Christiansen, Karl, fireman, first class. Mattisen, William, ordinary seaman, Cronin, Daniel, landsman.

David, George, ordinary seaman,

Dolan, John, seaman.

Melville, Thomas, coal passer.

Mikkelsen, Peter, seaman.

Moriniere, Louis, seaman.

Dressler, Gustav J., apprentice, first McCann, Harry, seaman.

class.

Durckin, Thomas J., ordinary seaman.
Flynn, Michael, seaman.

McNair, William, ordinary seaman.
Panck, John H., fireman, first class.
Pilcher, Charles F., ordinary seaman.

Foley, Patrick J., apprentice, first Rau, Arthur, seaman.
class.

Fox, George, landsman.

Gartrell, William M., fireman, first class.

Hallberg, Alfred, cockswain.

Ham, Ambrose, apprentice, first class.
Harris, Westmore, mess attendant.
Heffron, John, ordinary seaman.

Herbert, John, landsman.

Reden, Martin, seaman.
Richards, Walter E.,

second class.

E., apprentice,

Rowe, James, ship's cook, fourth class.
Rusch, Frank, ordinary seaman.
Schwartz, George, ship's cook, first
class.

Shea, Jeremiah, coal passer.
Teackle, Harry, seaman.

Herness, Alfred B., gunner's mate, Thompson, William H., landsman.

Kushida, Katsusaburo, warrant of- White, John E., landsman.

The Policy of Maximo Gomez, and the Famine in Cuba-The Reports of American Consuls in Cuba on the Cane Burning and its Relation to the Starvation of the People-The Agent of the Cubans in Arms Justified Barbarism-The Testimony of Our Consuls that the Gomez Policy was the Cause of the Death of Thousands-Direct Evidence of Black Mail Taxes and the Anxiety of. Cuban People to be Annexed to the United States.-The Desperado Orders by Gomez Before Weyler Came to Cuba.

One of the well remembered circumstances of the agitations that preceded the declaration of war with Spain a few days was the intensity with which the champions of the freedom and independence of the Republic of Cuba demanded the reports that the American-Cuban consuls had furnished the State Department, respecting the Spanish policy of the malicious extermination of the Cuban people, and there was a clamor because it was held to be prudent to revise those papers, or withhold them for a few days, in order that the Spaniards might not find, in the official statements of the consuls, reasons that would seem to demand the slaughter of writers of truth about the island.

There were two or three days' waiting, when the consuls were withdrawn from their posts, and preserved, events following so fast that what they had to say about Cuban affairs has never received very much attention. The real character of the documentary evidence will, as a rule, be in the nature of news to those who read this volume. The newspapers having the country in charge and having undertaken the management of the war, had not much space to give Cuban outrages when once there was assurance that we were going to war with the Spaniards.

On the day the Maine was blown up, February 15, 1898, General Lee wrote to President McKinley, enclosing a letter from the insurgent General Maximo Gomez, without date, in which the general said:

"The revolution, as absolute master of the country, has never prohibited any citizen, whatever his nationality, from earning his living, and it has hap