Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-20 | Page 4 | Blowing up of the Maine

BLOWING SLOWING UP tiP OF THE MAINE In the death ot of Rear AdmIral Charles Dwight D the Ameri Amerl American American can nation nallon loss loses a heroic figure He was known to the American people as the commander of the tho Maine when hen hen that battleship was sunk In J harbor On the evening of February 15 1898 the warship was riding at all aIt arff thor in Havana harbor Nearly as the crew had bad retired when hen a deaf deaf- deaf ning roar roal was as heard The MaIne had been blown up and anel lives livesT 5 pro era 10 lost out ot of o on 01 board w hen the news reached the United States the people were In- In in lamed rd and asid called for Immediate ac so- action Lion tion against Spain as the s source of the conspiracy President lev Ie ari against hasty action sod an investigation On Those in charge of ot the work of o examining the wreckage declared that the fOrce causing the loss of the bip came tamo from without With this hIs In Information information information formation at hand America pro p proceeded proceeded to the punIshment which Spain by its lis offending over overa overa a 11 long period deserved and the Spanish Am American war var opened with l Dewey Dewoy steaming Into Manilla bay bar on May day and sinking the en- en en enemy's emy's amys fleet Only yesterday an echo of that victory of o 25 25 years ago was waa heard Ih n the Filipino officials resIgned as 11 a protest against the acts ats f Governor General Wood the Philip Philip- Philippines Phillp pines ha having fallen into our hands J 19 one of o the requirements of the terms tennIs of ot peace The blowing up ot of the Maine hall had Its Influence on American life It gave to us UIo colonial possessions and lifted us out of ot the Isolation of the tho put past l With the tle 1 death of Admiral Sig-s- Sig bce bee a big chapter in American hl tory is ls closed