Show SAMPSONS tVS REPORT sends good cheer for a fourth of july Cele milan washington ton july 5 long before any details of the battle had arrived commodore sampson sent seu t tile the following message to secretary loog long dated Si boncy a in aly 4 thebert the fleet Beet under my command offers the nation as a fourth of july pres ent the destruction of the whole who ae of cerveris veras fleet no one ODO escaped escape d it attempted to escape at am and ud CAPT SAMPSON at 2 p m tile the last the cristobal colon had run ashore six milea miles west test of santiago and had let down her colors the infanta marie and vizcaya were forced ashore burned and blown up within twenty miles of 0 santiago the furor F uror and pluton were destroyed within four miles of teleport the port lobs one killed and two wounded loss probably several hundred from gunfire explosion and drowning about 1300 prisoners prito prison nors erts including admiral cervera the man killete was george 11 II ellis chief yeoman ol of the brooklyn signed SAMPSON |