Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-04
me out of the mouth of the

harbor. "They were coming right toward us,' the witness replied, lin column ot yes sel almost in line a little on our star board bow. They had not then begun to turn.''
 Were they firing at you?" asked Mir Hanna.
 "They were certainly firing in our direction,'' was the response The witness said that after that the firing was from both sides of the bows or the eneny's vessels.
 Testifying concerning the events Of July 8, Lieutenant Doyle said that at 9:30 a. m. of that date the Brooklyn had been $500 yards from the Morro, 300 yards farther out than the posi- | tion assigned He thought that the Brooklyn's first shot had been fred l four or five minutes after she began 10 move into action.
 MT Hanna: You have spoken of the appearance of smoke in the hafbof and of the action taken by the Brook | lyn with respect thereto. Was any en- | try made in the log of the occurrence?' 1 q find none. The only thing l flnd l in relation to that is an entry here about several burning blockhouses i being visible on the high point to the westward"
 | OO you Iuluh lHttl lClulCo " tAiO S.R pearance of smokey'
 ..No, that had nothing to do with it.
 because the blockhouses were away off
 to the westward.
 1 Captain Lemly asked what efforts had been made by the flying squadron | to discover the whereabouts of the l Spanish fleet while the squadron lay off Cienfuegos before the arrival of Captain McCalla. The witness replied | that there had been no effort except in making inquiries of the captain of the i British vessel Adula.
 Captain Lemly then asked what the
 witness meant yesterday when he said that just after the beginning of the 1 battle of July 3 there was prospect l of a melee
 l q thought responded the witness, I ''that the ships were coming right to- ward us. I thought they would get
 into us and I thought we would have
 a mixup. as they were only about ], 400 | yards distant"
 Judge advocate: "Do you mean that i the course of the Brooklyn took her across the Spanish line, and that she 1 necessarily maneuvered so as to make
 turn to avoid that?' "That is what I mean.''
 What orders were given by signal 1 from the Brooklyn to the fleet during l the action of July 3?'
 :" do not know. except what have already testified to about the wig | wag."
 You have stated that while you | were on top of the starboard turret it l looked very much as though there was l going to be a general melee or mixup with the Spanish ships. 1 want you to | give, as nearly as possible, the relative | positions of the vessels, Spanish and l American, to the Brooklyn, at the time
 you refer to-"
 "At the time referred to the Span | ish ships were i'll column, standing
 right toward us and about point on | our starboard bow"
 By the court: .sWhat direction did | the Spanish ships take Immediately
 after clearing the entrance to the har- I borg'
 'sThe direction must have been south
 west. They steamed right toward us; 1 that is, when I first saw them they
 were on our starboard bow"
 By the court: "Was there a squatl-
 ron night order book on board of the Brooklyn?"
 l ''I did not see any. No, know there
 was not. I did not see any. There | was a captains night order book' By the court: ''Now did Lieutenant | hoAA1A NOHN1AlNC SOQ lHdl lhS C1lIF you
 made in the log of the Brooklyn re-
 garding the helm of the Brooklyn while turning was wrong?''
 We engaged in discussion at the luncheon table, my impression being
 at that time that we turned with star | board helm. During this discussion ;t | occurred to me the way picked up
 the ships on the starboard quarter did
 not quite fit in with the turning with ,&a on6 hnI,, r. | done so. but it did not seem likely,
 and Lieutenant Sharp being an ob-
 server and being away from where I
 was. in the sense that he had better | observation of what we did, I con
 cluded he was perfectly right. I .ea-
 Soned out in my own mind that if we
 turned with starboard helm We uD- questionably would have picked up the l Spanish ships on our starboard> beam and not on our Starboard quarter
 Captain William c. Dawson of the | United States marine corps was tue 1 next witness. He was the signal offi-
 cer on board the battleship Indiana
 during the battle off Santiago and said he had noticed the Brooklyn when that | vessel turned to the southWard He 1 had supposed the ship was injured and
 had gone out of action. He thought
 she went 1000 yards or more to tue south
 Captain Dawson said that during the
 battle he had had place on the flying
 bridge beside Captain Taylor, and had
 been able to see well. The Indiana had. he said. occupied a position at the eastern extremity of the arc of the blockading circle. while the Brooklyn had been at the west end of the line
 "rThe Indiana" he said, twas heading approximately north and the Brooklyn l nortIerly and easterly. The Texas | was first east of the Brooklyn and was heading in the same general direction
 as that vessel. I had clear view of all the vessels up to the time the In- 1 diana was directed to return during
 the chase of the Colon"
 In reply to a question from Captain l Lemly, the witness said at this point that he had seen no signals from the Brooklyn directing the movements of the fleet during the battle. Continuing his narrative. he said:
 "At the beginning all the ships turned l in toward the Spanish feet which was
 emerging from the harbor. The Span ish vessels came out in a southwestern ly direction and ported helm. continu- ing to the westward practically paral- Tel to the coast line. Our ships then not having as great speed as the ell emy's. began to fall behind. so that Indiana, Oregon. Iowa and Texas star boarded helm and madeAaD the speed ar.~ 7 1<I +l