The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-01
ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EyANS
 TELLS OF SANTy,I4GO BATTLE

o,er onsssiops saa ,ssn,ns Were Ss,ns pHS pc sPeaa ~Su've got me there" .-
 He then proceeded: .I sisnailed over, I object to having two battleships along Texas signalled. I think to Captain His- ginson, but I do not know whether 1t was to the Admiral or to him: K and N Mir. Rasnor-You were not ''Gs; you were .xT'sG" was the Massachusetts.
 'I was c think. What objected to was having two battleships beside me. They have circular motion and when two battleships are rolling. they would have tendency of crushing collier be- tween them II wss not so much th on ,s sc ing of one battleship on each side.
 How was the sea at that time?'
 'I did not feel the sea very much. be- cause my ship was peculiarly steady How was it as far as the other ships "Battleshtps nearly always have mo- ton: that fs my experience. As far as I was personally concerned, I could have wen. how about the other yesselsr
 That is not for me to judge"
 '"Then when you spoke of your capacity to coal. you spoke about your own ship?.'
 "Yes, that was ready for delivery: I am giving. no opinion regarding other Continuing. the witness said that he al- ways hated to go alongside the battle ships
 contsn,aiIH ways s.eaay, r,o,line I "Rspeciaiiy in rough sea" suggested MT. Raynor.
 n any ssa true Wen the war ship has protruding sponsors. as had .sThey were always nasty" the witness Mr. raynor questioned Captain Miller concerning the state of the weather and sea on May 26, quoting from Admiral Cerveras statement % on that suD'eSs pas Ios was silent as to the condition of the sea at that time. Gave Way to Hobson. In this connection Captain Miller re- ferred. to his removal from the command of the Merrimac. in order to turn the yes. sel over to Lieutenant Hobson. He said on that point.
 When I was taken out summarily from | lost and the only thing l can remember now was the few notes l have here Is in | this log" A
 | found protection from the sea on May Ath?"
 The witness replied: q do not think | that unless we had gone up probably to l the Isle of Pines there was any place, | so far as I can remember now, where we could have found smoother weather than | we 1Oun0 OH SleHlueSoS, aAhCSS eoahe l very far to the eastward | coaIed any of the vessels on May D had you been ordered to do soT ! To this tine reply was: Il should judge | so, to the best of my knowledge and be, I lief I say could coal; yes, I could coal | At any time. but then could not nave \ coaled comfortably. For the other ships It | was what we call a nasty sea and equally choice i would not have ccaied on that aa Hs he he left sife ssssssa ~eaptasm szisier asked that he might be excused if be had shown any temper.
 T feel a little bit touchy about the Mer- l rimac," he said. :. :.
 Admiral Dewey assured him that he had | displayed no temper.
 Captain Miller was succeeded on the witness stand by Captain Theodore F.. Jew ell, who commanded the cruiser Min neapolis during the Spanish war.
 Captain Jewell Testifies. | Captain Jewell said that when he had l first seen Admiral Schleys statement as to the information he may have given concerning Cervera's fleet, he had writ ten letter to the department denying that he had done so. Objection was made to this line of testimony, and 1t was not persisted in.
 The witness said he had no knowledge that Captain Sigsbee, speaking for him self and Captains Jewell and Wise, stat ed to Commodore Schley on the 18th at Santiago that neither he the witnessl nor Wise nor himself (Sigsbee) had seen anything or knew anything of the move ments or whereabouts of the Spanish fleet. Nor did he know whether Captain Sigsbee wrote a letter to Commodore Schley stating that that was a fact.
 The court here asked a question which opened up the coaling question. The question was as follows
 How far could the Minneapolis have gone with her 400 tons of coal at the time you state?' ., could have made something like 2Oo or 300 miles That would have left the bunkers empty. I was burning about ninety-five tons a day and on that mak- ing fourteen or fifteen knots.
 Drawing from Captain JeWeH the IecI that the distance from Santiago to Key West is 800 miles. Mir. Raynor asked:
 "In view of what you said just now, will you explain the signals read: S:oO p. m., May 2eth, flagship to the Minneap- olis.' Have you enough coal to go to Key Minneapolis to flag ship; Just
 How do you explain that?'
 'I am giving my recollection at the time. As said my coal supply was re- duced and l was concerned. There were a great many signals being made and replied to the signal without consulting the coal account particularly, and con about the limit at which l could safely
 There is an error here of 800 to 60C miles. Eight hundred and 1, ,30o or ], 400 are very diffrent."
 ''i estimated the distance could steam I did not usually provide for burning every ounce of coal in the bunkers and furthermore we have got to allow for con- tingencies l was hauling the fires from the boilers very often on account of the leaks starting fresh fires in other boilers My coal expenditure was variable. could not depend upoK it.''
 Captain Jewell said he had first fal. len in with the flying squadron under command of Commodore Schley on the evening of May 26
 Captain Lemly quoted some of Admiral SchIey's letter to the Senate Committed l on Naval Affairs dated February 18th 1899. saving: After having been inform ed by the scouts commanded by such of ficers as Sigsbee, Jewell and Wise. that a week they had seen nothing of Cevera's fleet since it left Curacoa," and asked whether he had given to Admiral Schley this Information or any other information concerning the Spanish fleet.
 Contradicts Schley's Statement.
 The witness replied: T gave him nc . information in regard to that suDJec' , The Judge Advocate asked: At the time you were within signalling distance of the flagship of the flying squadreh oll Santiago, were you at any tune asheo any question by Commodore Schley as to the presence of the Spanish squadron ln san tiago?"
 Not to my recollection"
 Do you recolIect whether you went on board the flagship BrooKlyh @t tlis time?"
 Il did not go on board that day"