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Show BAMFSON'S REPORT. Mds Gd Cbrar far a rourth of Jnly talalirnltoa. Washington, July . Long before any details of the bHttlo had arrived, I Commodore Haaipson scut the following follow-ing message to Secretary I ong, dated rllbonry, J 15 . ni , luly 4 "Th fleet under my command offers the Nation as a Fourth of July pres-tntthe pres-tntthe destruction of the whole of Cervera' fleet No one escaped. It attempted to escape at S 30 a.-m and CAPT SAMPSON etlp tu the tut, the Cristobal Colon, had run ashore six mile mlU waat of Santiago, and had let down her color "The Infanta Marie Tercsi.Oquendo and Vltcaya were forced ashore, burned burn-ed and blown up within twenty miles of Santiago the Furor and Pluton wre destroyed within four rallci of the port. Lost, one killed and two wounded 1'ncmy's loss probably ovi eral hundred from guntlre explosion and drowning "About IJOO prisoner, including Admiral Ad-miral Cervera "Th man killed was Ueorgo H.UIlii, I chief yeoman of the Urooklyn (Signed) "SAMPSON. |