24
Sailors 60
Marines 11
—–­
95
Number lost: 
Officers 2
Sailors 230
Marines 28
—–­
260
—–­ 355
Bodies recovered: 
Officers 1
Sailors and marines 177
Died from injuries: 
Sailors and marines 8
—–­ 186

Of the number recovered there were buried—­
In the cemetery at Havana 166
At Key West 19
At Pittsburg, Pa. (officer) 1
—–­ 186
Number of bodies not recovered: 
Officers 1
Enlisted men and marines 73
—–­ 74

The work of recovery was continued until April 6, when the wrecking tugs were withdrawn, and nothing is now being done in that direction so far as is known; and the last bodies reported as recovered were sent to Key West on the 30th ultimo.  No estimate has been made of the portions of bodies which were recovered and buried.  The large percentage of bodies not recovered is due, no doubt, to the fact that the men were swinging in their hammocks immediately over that portion of the vessel which was totally destroyed.

A.S.  CROWNINSHIELD,

Chief of Bureau.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 25, 1898.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America: 

I transmit to the Congress, for its consideration and appropriate action, copies of correspondence recently had with the representative of Spain in the United States, with the United States minister at Madrid, and through the latter with the Government of Spain, showing the action taken under the joint resolution approved April 20, 1898, “for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions in to effect."[7]

Upon communicating to the Spanish minister in Washington the demand which it became the duty of the Executive to address to the Government of Spain in obedience to said resolution, the minister asked for his passports and withdrew.  The United States minister at Madrid was in turn notified by the Spanish minister for foreign affairs that the withdrawal of the Spanish representative from the United States had terminated diplomatic relations between the two countries, and that all official communications between their respective representatives ceased therewith.