Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-10-04

porUun1Uy to do so. He always struck
me as being just about as well possessed
as it was possible for anybody to be un-
der these circumstances"
Mr.. Raynor then asked the witness
whether, on July 2, 1898, he had OBJ.
served smoke coming from the Santiago
ley objected and Mr.. Raynor said that
his purpose was tG prove that it was be-
lleved that at that time the Spaniards
were preparing TO Withdraw from the
harbor and that Commodore Schley had
communicated the facts to the squad
ron. It was competent, he said, to prove
the conduct of the commodore under
the departments precept.
Captain Lemley and Mr.. Hanna con-
tended that the certain effect of such
questions would be to open the gates for
lnterminable inquiry and that if one
side should enter upon such questions,
the other must also be allowed to do so,
They did not object, except for the
reason of the time involved.
Captain Parker announced his will
ingness to ''open the door wide" He
wanted the entire matter investigated
and would have the searchlight turned
0EOA CECAy 2A04N4OuhAS 41Ou1 WIG GULL
mander-in-chief TN the lowest officer un-
der him.
Mr.. Raynor was then permitted to
ask his question, which he did in the
following words:
"Was the smoke observed on July 2
by Commodore Schley communicated 10
the sQuadron?'
The reply was:
''Smoke was rising in the harbor on
July 2, and my impression now is ana
always has been since that night that
the information was conveyed to the
| COMMUNICATIVE chief -
Part Taken by Brooklyn.
The witness was then requested to
give brief account of the part take
by the Brooklyn Ia the battle of July s.
which he did, repeating much that he
| had said yesterday.
After stating the preliminaries Lieu
tenant Doyle gave his observations of
the battle in the following language:
81 fired the last gun first and Haloli-
gan shortly afterwards fred the right
one. Then we loaded the guns
| again. IT was then necessary to wait
to turn the rurret directly ahead, as our
ship was apparently shutting the enemy
out by turning with a starboard helm
Immediately after firing the left guns
| the second time the order was to man
the starboard battery.
81 got out of the turret through the
roof, that being the most convenient
way to crossing over to the starboard
turret. | thus had an opportunity to see
| the Spanish ships. They were little
on our srarboard bow. AS soon as had
hold of the controller, which up to this
time had been in charge of Mr. Wood
ward, [ swung the turret around on to
the starboard bow. II the meantime
some Of our forward guns had fired.
The volume Of smoke was so great that
1t must have come from one of the
Slnch guns Of the forward 'turret, so
that l was entirely shut out from seeing
| the enemy.
''>harp Oh StarbOard Quarter"
"While the guns were in the position
| Mr.. Mason, our executive officer, passed
down the starboard gangway calling,
Sharp on the starboard quarter. -
1.-The interval OF time that the guns
were on the starOOard bow or sUarboard
quarter, [ think, must have been min
ures. swung the guns around to the
starboard quarter and Uhen we picked
up tn6 enemy. 1ne range at winch
fired to the best of my memory was
about 400 yards, and from then on it
was constant fire, training the guus
until we finally got them on the star
board beam. The range increased up
to 1000 yards, and during the run, be-
ing parallel with the Spanish ships, the
range varied about 1890 TO 1900
81 think when the Viscaya went in
ChnTo tho nj
yards. Just Immediately before she
turned in she made sheer with star
board helm. apparently coming toward
US and then Immediately put helm
around to the other way and went in
shore. From then on it was a chase
after the Colon. At the same time the
Viscava went ashore the Colon, by
working up inside of the other Spanish
ahina had sannred q Xarv long laad -