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Sampson Takes Charge

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
June
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, .Time 1. - Rear Admiral Sarnpson arrived off Santiago di' Cuba yesterday, and, in aecordance with instnictions, lie at once relieve;! Commodoi-e Schley in eomniand of the entnv forcé of ressels operating against Santiago de Cuba and the Spanish f'eet. assigning tha1 officer lo t'nc coramand of a división eomprising the ships formeiiy aítached to the flyíng squadron. Fifteen waïships are at Admival Sampson's disposal to pit against the six men of war flyíng the Spanish flag They inelude the ttrst-class battle ships Iowa. the Oregon and Massachusetts, -I class hattle shipïexas, armored cruisers New York and Brooklyn, protected cruisers New Orleans, Marblehead and Minneapolis, gunboat Nashville, torpedo ])oal destróyer Scorpion, dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, torpedo boat Porter, auxiliary cruisers Harvard and üfale and aitxiliary gunboat Eagle. Authentlc IJeport of the lïattle. Port Antonio, June 1.- The squadron, commanded by Commodore Schley attacked the batteries at Santiago de Cuba yesterday afternocfn and also engaged the ships of Admira] Cervera, í hicb w ere lying in the harbor. The i'iinish flagship Cristóbal Colon was stvuck twice by shells flred f rom the Massachusetts and the Spanish batteries were badly damaged by the fire of the Dnited States cruiser New Orleans. The Spaniards fired about 300 shots and the Americans fired about onefourth tliat number. No American vessel was liit and no one on board the American ships was injured. The Spanish loss was not heavy.

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Ann Arbor Democrat