The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-04

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 of questions The first of these called
 for an explanation of what the witness mant yesterday when he said ht thought that just after the beginning o1 the battle of July there was pros.
 pect of a melee
 T thought" responded the witness | that the ships were coming right to- ward us. I thought that they would get into us, and I thought we would have a l nix-up as they were only about 1,4o( yards distant''
 Judge advocate-Do you mean that l the course of the Brooklyn took her
 across the Spanish line, and that she
 necessarily manouevred so as to make a
 turn to avoid that?"
 That is what I mean"
 What orders were given by signal from the Brooklyn to the fleet during 1 the action of July 3?"
 T do not know, except what I have already testified to about the wigwag,
 You have stated that while you were on top of the starboard turret 1t looked l very much as though there was going | to be a general melee or mix-uD with ] the Spanish ships. I want you to give. as nearly as possible, the relative posi- tions of the vessels, Spanish and Amer | ican, to tho Brooklyn at the time you
 refer to."
 'At the time I referred to the Span ish ships were in column, going to- wards us and a point on our starboard bow"
 The court-"What direction did the
 Spanish ships take Immediately after clearing the entrance to the harbor?"
 'The direction must have been south west, They steamed right toward us; that is, when I first saw them they were
 on our starboard bow.'
 By the court-''Was there a squad
 ron night order book on board the
 Brookyn?"
 q did not see any, No, know there was not. I did not see any. There was q captains night order book ''
 By the court-"HoW did Lieutenant Sharp convince you that the entry en- tered in the log of the Brooklyn regard
 ing the helm of the Brooklyn while turning was Wrong?"
 We engaged in discussion at the luncheon table, my impressng being at tH6l lltllt lIldl N6 lllEltu NllI StdI board helm. During this discussion it occurred to me that the way I picked up the ships on the starboard quarter did not quite fit in with the turning with the starboard helm. It might have done so, but it did not seem likely, and, Lieutenant Sharp being an observ- CT and being away from where l was, in the sense that he had better observ- ation of what we did, I concluded that he was perfectly right. I reasoned out in my own mind that if we turned with starboard helm we unquestionably would have picked up the Spanish ships on our starboard beam, and not on our starboard quarter"
 Lieutenant Doyle was then excused, and Lieutenant Commander Clifford J. Boush, who had made for the court the large charts of the positions of the ves- ses of the American squadron while off Santiago, was called to identify those charts and to state the date upon which they were prepared. Commander Boush also gave information concerning the phases of the moon during the Santia. go campaign as taken from the Ameri- can Eohemeris.
 Captain William c. Dawson, of the United States marine corps, was the next witness He was the signal off, cer on board the battleshiD Indiana during the battle off Santiago and said he had noticed the Brooklyn when that vessel turned to the southward. He had supposed the ship was injured and had gone out of action He thought she went 2,00o yards or more to the south.
 Captain Dawson said that during the battle he had had a place on the flying bridge beside Captain Taylor and had been able to see we'll The Tidiana had, he said, occupied a position at the eastern extremity of the arc of the circle, while the Brooklyn had been at the west end of the line. "The Indiana he said, was heading north and the Brooklyn northerly and easterly. The Texas was first east of the Brooklyn and was head ing in the same general direction as that vessel I had clear view of all the vessels up to the time the Indiana was directed to return during the chase of the Colon.
 In reply to a question from Captain Lemly the witness said at this point that he had seen no signals from the directory of the movements 1 1f the fleet during the battle.
 Continuing his narrative he said: | At the beginning all the ships turned | n toward the Spanish fleet, which was emerging from the harbor. The Span sh vessels came out In a southwesterly 1 direction and ported helm, continuing 10 the westward practically parallel to | he coast line. Our ships then not hav- ng as great speed as the enemy's, be- gan to fall behind, so that Indiana. Oregon Iowa and Texas starboarded ,elm and made all the speed they could n a parallel course with the Spanish squadron. I did not see the exact of the Brooklyn. The first l noticed her was twenty or twenty-five minutes after the action began
 turned my eyes to the westward and aw the Brooklyn standing apparent y due southward directly at right an- ,les to the course we and the other American ships were steering. This truck me so forcibly because the other hips were in column and steaming westward The Brooklyn was in close proximity to several others of our ships. hey appeared punched, but the Brook yn was steaming southward and firing with her stern guns, while some of the thers, I couldn't distinguish which, we're close to her The spectacle was o remarkable that I reported the fact