The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-31

70 communicate with the hying squadron.
Scorpion 0 hSs besn sent o"hS to intoreept na M shs
Eagle for he purpose of securing what
ever infort alton she might bring. After
a little" he said, 'the Scorpion returned
and reported through the megaphone, I
think, ide tically as is reported in his
log, which was all the information he
sose enouh so he ss tc na
by the n.cgaphone and repeated that
there was no news. ! was on the quar-
Sssk into hn my hnS mn iee%d Sn as S BE sbn
have heard, I begin to think that may be
l was mis- AIKEN"
Adm. schley placed his arrival of Glen
fuegos at near midnight of May "a. He
told OF hearing guns early that evening
While still e. Gr 40 miles distant from the
uban poi The fact of hearing these
. us was loubted so much so that
ie officer he deck spoke of It, ! hap
j red to w. here at the time"
Ts said 1t the fleet stopped for the
! c IT ten twelve. miles off shore off
e lfuegos nd that he had sent the
sogpion all I'D of the fleet as a patrol
1d that G. ard daylight on the follow
i.r morniE May q, all the ships had
~ med II lose to the harbor entrance.
Ny rec ction now is, he said. that
y went hin mile and looked at the
] Dor, b. owing to trees and other OBJ
structions . was impossible to see into
the harbor. never saw any smoke
stacks and ! was very close watcher
morning until ~ or 1 o'clock at night.
There was scarcely circumstance of any
kind that escaped me"
The admiral said that after this in
spection of the harbor he had taken po-
sition with the fleet three or four miles
out.
At o'clock of the evening of the 22d
the torpedo boat Dupont arrived with
adivces from Adm. Sampson. The dis
patch referred to was the Dear Schley"
letter Referring to this dispatch the
II did not remember the fact until
within the past few months because there
was duplicates of that letter but I now
recall from the fact that / sent the Scor-
pion to the eastward In obedience to the
injunction contained In that letter to COM
| municate with the scouts about whose
presence off Santiago I was very uncer-
tain as / think the admiral was on ac-
count of orders having been sent direct
Ing them to proceed In the direction of
the Spanish main to look for the squad
ron. The admiral was not certain wheth-
er they had got back. nor was l. There
fore. sent the Scorpion east and that
fact fixed the receipt Of tina, Letter"
the admiral explained the formation of
his fleet there. saying that the steaming
which had been mentioned in the logs
was for the purpose of overcoming the
effect of current which set directly into
the blight. He said the ships were con-
stantly setting into the breach and were
| a mile or two. And that" he said, "ac-
counts for a good deal of what is stated
In the logs about steamins. We were
closer at night, and that he said en-
phatcally, was the rule of the squadron
always: we were closer at night at both
| Cicnfuegos and Santiago. The idea of
! keeping the squadron In formation dur
| ing the night or In line of battle ready
| for any emergency was never abandoned" "
At this point Adm. .Schley digressed for
moment nom to refer TO the -eonyersation
| leaving Key West. which he said had i'm
duced the belief that the Spanish squad
ron's objective was Cienfuegos.
The admiral then related the particu-
lars of the visit of Lieut.. Wood, of the
| Dupont, to him, on board the Brooklyn
when the, Dupont arrived off Cienfuegos.
| bile condition of exhaustion because of
his arduous duties on a torpedo boat.
The admiral related how Lieut.. Wood
had handed him the dispatch and added
II think he did me injustice when he
spoke of my speaking disrespectfuliy OF
ADM Sampson as Capt. Sampson. used
no such term. There was no reason why
The admiral said that the Hawk ar
rived about o'clock on the morning of
the dispatch from Adm. Sampson, which
is designated as No s. This is the dis
patch in which the commander in chief
notified the commander Of the flying
squadron that the Spanish fleet probc bly,
was at Santiago, and directed him, III
satisfied that they are not at Cienfuegos
to proceed with all dispatch to Santiago" I"
cate copies of dispatch No. S, and said
he identified the copy brought by the
Hawk as the first received by marginal
notes which had been made on the copy
The admiral referred to a memorandum
from the Dolphin published in the appen-
dix to the report of the chief of the bu-
reau of navigation as follows:
The Hawk has just reported from Ci-
enfuegos with dispatches from Schley.
Hood says good number OF the officers
AlthnlHh th1y
That" remarked the admiral. would
go to indicate that Mr.. Hood was not
Ssr,sn IN his yepSn 9% mnd Il he
the ommander-in.chief, Mr. Hood got
nno, into the ocoaE %nehorass think ,S sSms time
into the anchorage at Cienfuegos before
10 or II o'clock. Lieut. Hood did net
board that ship In my presence. She had
Adula and got this news and failed to
deliver 1t to me, then he committed an
indiscretion, for ! was the senior officer
to do with her and l should have been been
very glad to have had his information. !"
Adm. Schley said that on the night Of
the "a ne mad seen three horizontal lights
the harbor Of Cienfuegos. THE one to
the eastward, he said. twas In the noun
tains and should say ten miles from the
coast and certainly 500 feet up. The 9TH
ers to the westward were about Ave or
on the highland.
He said that while the squadron lay
off Clenfuegos the winds we're fresh and
there was quite rolling swell to the sea.
In this connection Adm. Schley referred
to the fact that he had not been Informed
that there was any system OF SIGNALS for
communicating with the insurgents and
ne said that he did not know that there
were any Insurgents 10 the vestward of
Cienfuegos Continuing on the subject
of coaling Adm. Schley adds:
After we got hold OF coIiiers we were