The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-24
NAME
 CAUSES ARGUMENT
Counsel Claims That He Cannot Be, Divorced from Inquiry Conduct
 of Brooklyn Reviewed.

ish the coal supply. At l0 tons c day. of days if there was a coal supply at hand. Merrimac."
 ''steaming at ten knots, about how l much coal would the Massachusetts com, ] sume on a days rum" My recoliection Is that we could mako
 That @ would bs about J Ysn miles .sn o5 das sea : fifty tons. and think this probably not Navigation of the Texas. Lieutenant Commander L. O.. Heifnex. navigator of the Texas during the Span ish war. testified that he had heard no
 Ctenfuegos. To his knowledge no effort was made to ascertain whether the Span ish fleet was in the harbor. or to destroy been any effort to communicate With
 Cubans on shore until Captain McCalla
 arrived on the Marblehead. Witness was then asked to describe tho
 battle of July 8 and said: The Texas had been heading about
 east when the enemy was seen coming
 was officer of the deck at the time, rang
 70 go ahead full speed, and put helm
 hard to starboard to make a turn. | When he was on deck he informed me
 of what happened and I sent him below and assumed charge of the deck. The captain told me that he had eased the WnlE0 WAY the ships were going and he also ran nan speed. l suggested full speed. He said the battery. was not ready. told in position to fire. and then he said: l TAI right and rang fun speed. l When the second of the enemy'p ships the helm hard to starbeard. I made ssv- ev- l eral reports to him about the Brooklyn regarding her signals. He said Never thought the Brooklyn was standing un to nGht-very nicely. The captain said: On, creckie. Never mind the Brooklyn. You look out for this ship. The Brooklyn was then about her port beam. So Baid:
 | "All right. captain. will look at the back. looking on on the @ star6oard is beam "a at the ships getting out. After we sheared about and got to the westward suggest- % @ m ana f he ts ad pGsf Rshs hs a.er sS fs Es gave her this helm he sang out through the. sight hole to the men at the wheel snc shsr as st the engine rocn indicator to slow
 Captain. they win all get away from
 IsIIe did not answer me. but immediate
 ly stepped back. and then said: ".My Lord. captain, we are out of tha light Look at the Bro0klyn.'
 Position of the Brooklyn. Il T turned around, and right ahead Of | smoke. For second thought my heart was in my mouth. We were steaminr with heavy helm and she steered by us. ahead of us. That is the first saw She | sheered off and went to sea about 2,O00 yards. and then on to westward. As soon as the Brooklyn cleared us we rang to go ahead and started up forced draft again. Then We simply followed on as fast as we could on line that was just in- side the line where the Oregon was en- gaging the ships Just before this turn of the Brooklyn. the Iowa and the Oregon were both close to us. on our starboard helm. We continued the chase until the Colon hauled down her flag, when the captain gave the order to stop forced
 Captain Lemley-How near was the Brooklyn to the Texas at the time you saw her loom up in the smoke?
 II did not make any estimate at the time, but came to the conclusion later that she was between 100 and 1B0 yards from us. which was much longer dis tancs than Captain Philip thought 1t
 Captain Lemley-Perhaps should have asked you in the first place the position of the Brooklyn relative to the Texas just before going into battle.
 She was almost astern of us. That Is because we were headed almost east She should have borne west by northwest She was heading for the land and I on her north course. I did not see st first any indications of turning and | thought she was going right in." Did the Brooklyn give any steam whistle signal to indicate her change of
 That do not know" Did you hear any?" q did not hear any" Do you think you would have heard 1t If there had been a steam signal?"
 NO, sir. We could never have heard
 "At what time during the battle of Santiago do you consider that the Texas was in the greatest dangerT asked Cap tain Lemley.
 Mir Raynor objected. contending such opinions were shut out by a previous ruling of the court.
 points on which the court must from time to time ask the opinicn of wit nesses., The point was also urged on the one side by Captain Lemley and the oth-
 The court oVerruIed the objection and the question was repeated.
 The Texas in Danger.
 Looking back" responded the witness, danger for the Texas was when the ahead of us."
 He said in response to questions that he had never sailed with a man who had quicker sight or who handled his ship to better advantage than Captain Philip. occasion given successive orders and that the Texas was backed until she was dead" On account of this incident, two or three minutes had been lost and fully three miles were lost to the ship A part of this delay, however, he said. had been caused on account of the fault of the ships blowers, rendering the vessel slow in getting up steam.
 Commander Heilner was questioned at considerable length concerning signals. He had, he said, in response to Mir. Ray nor's questions, seen the Brooklyn make signals to the Texas on the day of the battle.
 MT Raynor-What were they?
 T do not know what they were. First. I reported a one-hag hoist, which sup posed was Clear ship for action.
 How many of those signals do you recollect being made to the Texasr
 T saw that one. Then shortly after saw a second signal. which was three flag hoist, and that is the time reported to Captain Philip. He said. as l have stated before, that was not to look after the Brooklyn. but the Texas
 How many signals did the New York signal to the Texas on the day of the bat- tle?' asked MT Raynor.
 ''I do not know" was the response.
 Did she make any signals to the Texas?"
 T saw signals from the New York, think but not at o'clock or s;S0"
 Objection was made to this line of dues- tionlng and the question was withdrawn temporarily The court then took re- cess until o'clock.
 When court convened Mir. Raynor, com
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