Show Samp sampsons sons 1 fleet leet of nine eadels easels at sn bun juan porto citko key west went may 13 ing repeated assertions that admiral sampson had been instructed not to bombard porto forto rican ports as under the it would only add to complications san juana juan s forti fica eions lave have been destroyed at daybreak vest yesterday erday admiral sampson ap feared off san juan with nine warships and attacked the defenses righting fighting bob evans evana of the iowa was given the privilege of ordering the first shot hot which took effect I 1 ahe he big guns ot of the indiana next boomed the entire fleet then opined up and in an incredibly short bhart time the defenses were destroyed there were but tn two o men killed and seven sev en wounded of the latter only one is IB considered serious the spaniards stood pluckily by their guns and returned the fire but their shooting was wild the ahe did not die the signal to retire and for half an hour fought a splendid duel with the forts shot and shell rained mined around her but she was uninjured the guns were not silenced but the forts looked like a sieve when the fir tug ing ceased simpsons Simp sona sons intention it was sur raised was to i lender ender the forts useless to the I spanish fleet if it should put into that port |