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Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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was, a large hole in the mud, fully fifteen feet indiameter and seven feet deep. The Court was inclined tothink that the force of the mine explosion must have explodedsome part of the forward magazines, but, nevertheless, con-siderable ammunition from these magazines w^as found intact,whereas had the initial explosion taken place within themnothing would have remained. Besides, there was nothing tocause these ammunition stores to explode except an explosionfrom outside. The evidence was entirely conclusive. Recognizing the obstacles to the work of obtaining anyevidence calculated to fix the responsibility for the outrage,the Court of Inquiry does not seem to have devoted much at-tention to that branch of the investigation, although it securedsome evidence that was not made public. As the Maine hadbeen conducted by direction of the harbor authorities to abuoy so seldom used, and as such an explosion could not havebeen worked except by connivance with some one on shore in 2x _ in ^ >
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CAPTAIN SIGSBEES TESTIMONY 455 charge of or with a knowledge of the mines, an investigation tofix the responsibility would naturally have taken the Court inthe direction of the authorities who were investigating the casefor Spain, and who had asserted from the beginning that itwas an accident. It was generally thought that GeneralBlanco was innocent of any knowledge of a plot, but it was wellknown that a large proportion of the guards were hostile tohim, were adherents of Weyler, were bitterly hostile to theUnited States, were capable of almost anything in the way ofoutrage, and were, moreover, in a position to use mines if suchthere were in the harbor. It is a curious fact, said Captain Sigsbee before theSenate Committee on Foreign Relations, which w^as pursuingan investigation of Cuban affairs at this time, that the officersof the deck say we never swung in that particular directionbefore. The Maine is lying now in about the position shewould ha^T taken to play upon the Spanish batt

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