The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-11

| ] Were the ships in formation of col- umn?'
 They were not. There was a mix up." | Commander Grant also described the retrograde movement of the flying squad-
 ron toward Key West as well as the | blockade of Santiago. He placed the dis tance of the blockading fleet from the | mouth of the harbor at from to miles | and said it was about the same day and night. Describing the bombardment of the Co., Ion on May 31st, the witness said on that occasion he had no conversation with Admiral Schley. He had charge of the powder division and testified that only five 13-inch shells and nine s-inch shells had been fired by the Massachusetts. Do you know of any further effort on that or a subsequent date by the flying squadron to capture or destroy the Co., lon?"
 No, sir"
 The witness also said that the ships en- gagged in the bombardment had, when en- gagged in 1t, steamed very rapidly and were in sight of the Colon for only about two minutes at a time. Commander Grant said that the fighting Ships of the flying squadron had not steamed away for any distance from the mouth of the harbor at night. At that time, he said, the Massachusetts was always cleared for action and that nothing was done to prepare for an engagement except to sound general quarters. | Mir. Raynor questioned the witness con- corning the signals of May 2s with the | end in view of showing that Commodore Schley's signal at 4:30 p. m. saying that .The general meeting place will be | twenty-five miles south of Santiago" was | modified by the preceding signal of Il: 80 | a. m., saying: Tn case of separation the l fleet will rendezvous at place designated
 by signal.
 l The witness declined to admit that this was true, calling attention to the fact l that the 11:30 signal also specified the 1 latitude and longitude of Gonaves Bay, | showing, as he had said, that that signal | referred to a former signal and that the 4:30 signal for a rendezvous twenty-five miles south of Santiago was independent and was not modified. MT. Raynor questioned the witness con- corning the encounter with a suspicious vessel while en route to Santiago. You say there wa sa melee or mix up on the night of the 18th. That was the time you were on your way from Cien- | fuegos to Santiago. Is there anything in your log book about that?" q do not think so. but next morning | made a written statement to Captain Higginson. l am very sorry l have not | a copy of the letter wrote at that time" " "Is there anything in your log referring | to the incident?"
 There is entered undoubtedly in my
 log that fact that the Marblehead fired | up those two stars and we were stopped | and went to general quarters, l think.
 was getting the ship clear for the minute.
 "Is there anything in that log about the
 Marblehead firing?'
 No, sir"
 'Is anything there about backing
 engines?'
 "Or danger of a collision or anything
 of that sort?"
 No, sir"
 Have you copy of the report you
 made to Captain Higginson?"
 II have not"
 Could you tell us what was in that re-
 port?"
 Tt is what have stated here. only
 had to put it in written language"
 Concerning the land batteries at San tiago the witness said that previous tc the bombardment he had general knowl- , edge of them from the naval intelligence and knew them to be manned by old
 guns,'
 The court asked the following questions Were any efforts made by the flying | squadron to discover whether or not | VI Cienfuegos?'
 None, to my knowledge" Were any orders given from the flag ship by signal or otherwise for the guid , ance of the ships composing the flying
 squadron in the passage from Cienfuego: to Santiago"
 None to my knowledge"
 Commander Grant was then excused | and Lieutenant J. H. Holden, who wa!
 watch officer on the Scorpion during thu Spanish war, was called. f Captain Lemly only asked Liuetenan , Holden concerning the Scorpions mission , as a dispatch bearer from Commodore Schley to the Harvard off Santiago or . May p. He then stated that Leutenan
 Holden was the writer of the log of th' , Scorpion in which an entry was mad,
 concerning the message conveyed to Com , modore Schley through the Eagle and tho , Scorpion from Captain McCalla when thu
 flying squadron was en route to Glen , fuegos.
 . Mr. Raynor then addressed the court
 quoting the message which Lieutenant
 Commander Southerland, in command oi f the Eagle, testified he had megaphoneC
 intercept the Brooklyn. This message, as the Lieutenant Commander gave 1t, read
 we left Cienfuegos on the night of the 16th at which time, as we learned iron , an insurgent camp about thirteen mile
 to the westward of Cienfuegos, some O the people from which were inside th
 town every night. that the only vessel z in that harbor were torpedo boat anC nine cannieros."
 Captain Lemly said they were "pre Il pared to admit that if Commander Mari'
 were summoned from Cavite, he would T not say that communication had beer
 made to the Brooklyn as to the presence n of the insurgents with whom communi r. cation had been had near Cienfuegos." j. Reading from the log, Captain Leml! d quoted the entry for May l9 showing t that the Brooklyn had instructed thu t Scorpion to speak the Eagle and obtain o news and the names of the vessels of t Cienfuegos."
 . The entry then tells of the carrying ou ] of the order and reports the following 9 as being the message signalled to tho ! Brooklyn by the Scorpion as the resul
 of the interview with the Eagle: Eagle sent by McCalla from Cienfue ? gos to report Nashville following about twenty-five miles in rear to westward Starboard high pressure cylinder dis
 abled Proceed slowly. Cincinnati ant } Vesuvlus of Cape San Antonio about if. f teen miles to northward. Flying squad ron has left Cienfuegos for Key West
 No news of the Spanish" MT. Raynor: Are you able to state Q what Lieutenant Commander Mark t would testify to before the court if he r were here?"
 Captain Lemly: 'I have 1t in the shape
 of a cablegram and in the shape of 6 Q letter, neither of which is properly evi
 dence before the court, because 1t is no
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