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Show Which Were Sunk by the Americans Near Santiago' - Santiago, Cuba, SepL 4. President's recent message to congress, asking ask-ing that it be determined whether the Spanish mon-of-war sunk In the battle bat-tle of Santiago thirteen years a'go should be given away, and Secretary Knox's opinion that the wrecks belong to tho United States, have revived speculation here as to the possibility of refloating the ships. , Engineers who have studied the lo- cation of the three batleships and two torpedo destroyers' are of the opinion that their salvagers practicable and would warrant the expense of saving the hulks Seven' miles west of the narrow mouth of Santiago harbor lies the first of Cervera's batleships, the Almirante Oqupnda. She Is beached In the breakers ot Juan Gonzales, with about a third of herjfhulk visible. Long ago she was stripped of everyportablQ article by wreckersvvbo braved arwa- -tery gravefbr tKeirizes-dhejwaa re putedo-have h5L' - ?-,-"--iJ They took everything they could pry loose, including, report has it, many thousand gold coins from the ship's safe Admiral Cervera's flagship, the VIz-caya, VIz-caya, lies eight miles further down tho rock coast, as much a victim to the depredations of ocean junk men as the Oquenda. A third of her form breaks the land line and it is believed ' there would he compaiathely little diff!cultv in recoxering her, although sho would bo entirely worthless, it io ujuuuu UDJCL t CQSCl ui til . Nearly two hours sail from the Vlz-saya, Vlz-saya, at Rio Torquino, 4S miles from this city, is the third of the four ships, the Chrlstobal Colon The Colon has been preserved from the hands of vandals by four fathoms of water abovo her Locked In her safe there Is said to 'be a large amount of money; aboard her nothing has been disturbed. Tho history of the fourth vessel of the fleet, tho Infanta Maria Teresa, Is well known. She was floated by Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson and lost in tow of an American war vessel when on her way to an American port, during a squall off Cat Island in the West Indies. Engineers have decreed de-creed here beyond a second attempt at salvage On |