The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-22

made sucA- copies as L desired and
turned tie papers over TO the RESPONSE
bic persons concerned"
Departure Of Squadron.
At Mr. Hanna's instance. Lieutenant
Wells repeated MS testimony concern-
Ing the departure Of the flynn, SQUAD
ron from Cienfuegos to Santiago. He
said the commodore had made no ype-
cial communication TO him THAI he
meant To take his immediate departure
FOR santiago but that he had gotten
the impress on from letters ami dis
| patches written then by Commodore
a-chley that IT, was his Purpose to leave
- giEht they did.
w Hanna then called attention 70
two letters froD the mm-dorp say
fnr that he would not leave Cienfuegos
until The next day. The witness said
d. did not recall writing these letters,
lu Thought ne had probably done so.
fie also thought th,st there probably
WIRE other dispatches leading 90 his
inference that tf~. squadron was TO
leave that night
q here must have been something
clser h. said. because we did leave
thai night instead cf che next day"
Mr Hanna also questioned Lieuteu-
ant Wells about the war bulletin re-
ceivrd from the Adula while the i!y-
Ing squa tfcf- lay of CienfuegDs. say
ing that while Cervera fleet had en-
tered Santiago Il had let there later.
shape of a small hand bill. and that
evidently IL had been issued by Some
newspaper in that vicinity He tiso
said he recalled the paper very dis
tinttiy hut could not recall by whom
Il was issued.
Lieutenant Wells said that ne had
never had any conversation with Com
mOdOre Schley concerning ehe retro
grade lovement he remembered dis
cassions ms 60 the possibility OF going
70 tionavis bay to coal. but his recol-
lection was that g was only to be done
IN certain contingencies.
Capture Of the Restormel.
Among 0t.ser dispatches read BY Mr..
Hanna. anu on which che witness was
queHioned. Was one 6ateo May IS from
Commodore .schley TO the navy depart
ment giving information Of the cap
fure % the Bestormel with coal for the
-pauish fleet. This was the day before
the positive location o. tie Spanish
chips IN the harb0r at Santiago.
Mr.. i4ann-- questioned the witness
shout the oombardment of the Colon
on My 81. He asked. What was the
purpose. or Commodore Schiey in re-
gard 70 the Colon on May 31?"
The witness replied. His idea was
TO 20 in and fire on her with The larg1~
guns. hoping to get shot into her st
that range TO disable her, perhaps. The
range was 1000 or $500 yards. The
colon appeared to be close to the en-
trance kAeE AHEs however EuOWtu lEE
TO be a mile or two inside the MORO.
We thought size was near the en-
trance"
The witness said that. in speaking
Of ne intentiors Of the commodore in
CONNECTION with the bombardment. he
was only giving his Impressions and
could not undertake to give actual con-
versations.
M. Hanna asked a number Of ques-
lions concerning the Ardois signals
N rf q
stated in reply to an interruption from
Ir. Raynor. that his purpose was TO
show that Notwithstanding the in
structious to set away quickly there
Signals at cienfuegos.
II s@cpose that was the object in
making tnem." remarked Captain Par
ker to which Captain Lemly respond
ed. Let that go on the record, but
don't euswer it..
The witness said that while it was
possible there had oeen a signal to the
Iowa uot to go "a closer on the cay OF
the Colon's bombardment. he did not
bel eve such was the case, for ne IVES
constantly at the point from which the
signals were sent. still, for any yes
So have gone in closer would have
I H0istn the formation and would prob
ebiy have subjected the commanding
IAJHiCer to r%1rima 20
in ren-c to ci1esfious from FIR. Han
T.. witness said that while he could
not repeat actual conversations with
Commodore Schley rege-ding the ret
rograde movement. he was sure that
the movement was made because of
the rummodore's anxiety about the
coal supply of the vessels of the fleet.
IIe knew. said the witness. that the
Spanish feet was I'm tue vicinity and
felr that IL was not desirable 10 meet
s. without an adequate fuel supply.
IA reply TO question h Captain
1.cmly. Lieutenant Wells said that vita
tho brooklyn headed as she was and
with the harbor trending as il does. it
was natural that the Spanish vessels
coming out of the harbor should face
the Brooklyn.
NJ. Wells was on the stand wheG the
court aG iourued fer the day.
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