The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America

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Charles D. Sigsbee,
he said:
I laid down my pen and listened to the notes of the bugle, which were singularly beautiful in the oppressive stillness of the night. . . . I was enclosing my letter in its envelope when the explosion came. It was a bursting, rending, and crashing roar of immense volume, largely metallic in character. It was followed by heavy, ominous metallic sounds. There was a trembling and lurching motion of the vessel, a list to port. The electric lights went out. Then there was intense blackness and smoke.

The situation could not be mistaken. The Maine was blown up and sinking. For a moment the instinct of self-preservation took charge of me, but this was immediately dominated by the habit of command.
An investigation into the cause of the explosion which took down the Maine and the lives of two hundred fifty-four of its crew members lead to know certain answer.
This is when the Yellow-Journalism started and the stage was set for some major competition ...

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