The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-22

1T don't refresh my memory at all. -.
wrong2'
Il did not say anything about that.
Certainly il is possible for me to be
wrong. I want to state that am here
/ to answer questions pertaining to this
4 testimony, and not to have words made
ia that way, as though had made the
! assertions"
Hanna Takes a Hand
Mr.. Raynor announced his cross
! examination closed and the witness was
/ ss-examined by Mr.. Hanna, assist
ant judge advocate. Mr.. Hanna asked
whether it is practicable in times of
I urgency to rake log entries of sig
nails. The witness replied it was not
practicable for the person who usually
made such entries to put them down
at that time It was necessary to write
them out later. he said. trusting to
memory He also stated that il was
! possible for him to have had knowledge
of signals from the Texas, as Captain
Phillip usually managed the ship per
sonally.
rs it," asked Mr.. Hanna, "a more
critical matter to coal a ship in the
open with a battleship on either side
than with ship on only one side?''
Decidedly"
Captain Parker here asked: You
die some coalins on the 9th and 18th
"On the night of the 9th and morn
ing Of the 2Sth"
did not in the course of the coal
ing, the collier spring leak because
of collision vish the Texas?''
You could not call it springing a
] leak. The plates were indented and in
the Texas very little water came
seeping through"
so the sea at that time was bad
enough to cause these vessels to col
lide?"
The inference. sAr, is quite wrong.
That was due TO a float which we put
IN between the vessels and did not
notice that il was just abaft the armOr
belt The Iioat consisted of square
tim3ers."
That would have been worse in a
worse sea, and it was bad enough in
that sCa2"
Experience told it was not necessary
TO use that sort of thing"
You did not have as much expert
ence then in coaling as you have had
since, did your
with that sort of sea. yes. sir?"
/ By the court: What was the state
! of the sea when the Texas coated on
May p. as compared with the state
! THE weather was smoother. some
/ what. I believe; more favorable"
This concluded Captain Harber's tes-
/ timony and he was excused.
Higginson is Recalled.
/ Admiral Higginson was then recalled
and questioned especially concerning
! his statement of yesterday that the
/ feet was only two or three miles out
/ from Santiago hsFbor. cIe modified his
/ statement by saying that during the
/ first portion of the blockade the fe-S
stood out further. probably FIVE miles
] by day and four miles BY night. He
/ confessed, however, that after three
years his memory was indistinct
In reply to a question by Captain
: Parker the witness said with $500 tons
! Of coai aboard the Massachusetts, could.
! have steamed $500 miles. or could have
/ remained on Blockade duty for about
/ twelve days
Captain Parker; '',rhen after twelve
i days out you would not have been
/ able to get anywhere"
mo; we would not"
Did the fleet after the 18th OF MAY
ever go Off distance Of twenty-five
IT don't remember that it ever did,
Then the story TO that effect. by
/ whonisoever told, could not be trUe?'
/ 4 don't remember such an excur-
I sion. and if made the log book should
show the facts
Have you any memory that the
! fleet ever withdrew after that date a
distance OF more than six miles?"
Il have not
BY the court: Prom the distance
at which the blockade was maintained
at night could YOU have seen any yes
/ sci attempting to leave Santiago IN
der ordinary conditions of weather.
Admiral Hisginson: 4 think it
4 would have been difficult on account
of the high land and the shadows I'M
der the land"
Admiral Higginson was then ex-
cused and the court at 1 O'Clock took
a recess for lunch
Guam's Governor Heard.
The first witness called after the
/ noon recess was Commander Seaton
f-T-,
Of Guam. who during the Spanish war
| was executive officer Of the battleship
Massachusetts
Commander Schroeder was Dues
toned as to the details of the entire
/ campaign He knew, he said of no
efforts to communicate with the shore
| while the flying squadron" lay off
Cienfuegos. He could give no details
concerning the voyage from Cienfuegos
to Santiago, having been on the sick
list. On the FIST arrival of San
/ tiagO the feet had, the witness said
been twenty miles to the south of the
port. He did not know of his own
/ knowledge why westward movement
had been undertaken after arriving at
/ Santiago. nor did he know how far the
fleet had travelled in that direction.
He stated that upon the return to San
tiago on Nay %. he's had sighted the
! Spanish ship Colon. and that it lay
LOO or 1900 feet inside the harbor
the American feet being six or seven
Referring to the bombardment of the
Colon May 81. Commander Schroeder
said he did not observe that there was
any firing by the Spanish shore bat
4 teriesN
Asked &c sJau, in detail any CONVEX
satiOn on the part of Commander
Schiey during the>sSEagement, the wit
ness said that at the end OF T he IL ~,un
u TO the eastward he had gone to the
coming tower and found Commodore
Schley talking with Captain Higgin-
! son The captain had then directed
him 70 port helm and he Commander
Schroeder) had suggested that in case
this order should be observed the Iowa
I would blanket the fire Of the Massa-
chusetts He was proceeding with this
statement when counsel for Admiral
Il ochley raised an objection because the
witness could not say whether the
commodore had overheard the CONVEX
saticn-
The court withdrew to decide the
I point at issue and upon returning an
nounced that the objection had been
I sustained.
Ayers Schley Said TO Get Out.
The witness then stated that the
commander-in- chief had addressed him
later telling him to f'starboard the
/ helm, adding, and BET US get out of
/ this" but be found when he started