Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — THE KEARSARGE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

THE KEARSARGE BURNED.

The Historic Wreck Looted and Burned t.by Native*. A Boston special, March 27, says: A dispatch dated Havana, to President Winston, of the Boston Towboat Company, from the captain of the steamer Orion, to-night, says that the hull of the corvette Kearsarge has been blown up and burned by the natives. Tho Orion left here March 13, fitted out with every appliance needed to float the wrecked corvette off the Roncador reef. The steamer reached the reef on the 21st and found matters as above stated. Site arrived at Havana this afternoon. The remnants of the hull below the water line were wrecked and broken and showed the effect of the explosion of the magazine. Previous to the destruction of the vessel the natives of the Sananders island rifled the ship of everthing movable.