The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-02
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mate of the distance. 1t seemed very
close. She was going seaward."
"Was She headed toward the Tex
as?"
"She was on a course about right
angles to US at that time
Reporters Notes.
'Have you any notes on the subject,
made at the timer
"Yes, sir"
"Please read them"
Il have . note made at $50, in quo
tation marks, Stop both engines,
helm hard starboard'"
'Who gave that order?"
Capt Philip"
Mr.. Hanna: did you make any
entry/at the time with respect to the
passing of the Brooklyn before the
Texfs?"
yes, the next line here (reads) Tt
wigs Brooklyn-close shave
/'Could she have been half a mile
sway?"
Y Il should think not; not anything
like it. 1 would not suppose it was
a quarter of a mile when / saw her. 1
went around to the lee side of the con-
ming tower to find out why we stop
ped. Capt Philip waved his hand to-
ward the Brooklyn, and 1 saw her. He
said: Look at that fellow going out
to sea-
Admiral Dewey: did you hear Capt.
Philip give any orders to back en-
gines?"
NO. sir. do not remember that I
did. 1 turned away almost immedi-
ately."
Admiral Dewey: you would have
| if he had given the order, wouldn't
your"
'I might and might not"
| Admiral Dewey: You seem to have
| heard everything else"
"Oh! Not everything"
Mr.. Dieuaide said in response to
| questions that he had on the day of
| the battle written report of the bat
! tie, but that these facts had not been
| given because Capt. Philip had asked
him to make it nice for everybody"
and this had been his own inclination.
Capt. Sigsbee Testifes.
Capt Charles D. Sigsbee told of
| taking aboard the Cuban pilot Nunez
and said that he did not have great
confidence in that individual. His in
structions were to report to Commo-
dore Schley that the Spanish squadron
| probably was in Santiago harbor. He
| fell in with the flying squadron on the
| evening of May 26, the squadron then
| being twenty or twenty-five miles
south of Santiago. He had reported
to Commodore Schley that he knew
nothing positively about the Spanish
| fleet.
He was then asked if he had ex-
| pressed his belief to Commodore Schley
that Cervera's fleet was not in the har-
! Dor as reported later by Commodore
| Schley.
The witness replied: 81 stated that
we had seen nothing of the Spanish
| fleet. L may have stated that l knew
nothing positively or absolutely about
| its movements, but 1 recited certain
| events to show that there was q. prob
ability of the fleet being in Santiago
at that time"
Mr.. Hanna: THE portion of the
| question to which I should like to have
you give an explicit answer is whether
you assured Commodore Schley that
you believed the Spanish fleet was not
in Santiago
II did not say that 1 believed it was
not there 1 said 1 had not seen it,.
Did you give him any assurance
which would point in that direction
81 made known first my orders from
the navy department, which stated
that the Spanish fleet was reported to
have arrived there
Sigsbee's Advice to SchIey.
Mr.. Hanna read a number of letters.
| among them being one from Capt.
Sigsbee to Commodore Schley, writ
ten from Mole st. Nicholas, May 30.
in which he said to the commodore:
do as you are doing and you will
do right"
He told the Commodore that the de-
| partment expected him to exercise
great efforts to keep in coal.
| Mr.. Hanna asked 81 wish to ask
your attention to the clause. DO as
you are doing and you will do right
What was the Flying Squadron doing
at the time, you wrote that letter."
THAT was based on the tenor of the
| cipher kilograms l found at the Mole
| from the comnander-i in chief and from
the Navy Department, urging that the
| Spanish Squadron he held and that
every effort be made to coal ship 1
had twice urged on Commodore Schley
| the Importance of taking advantage of
| that particular kind of weather, stat
ing that it was better than anything
we had had during my stay off the
port"
Mr.. Rayner then questioned the wit
ness, bringing out the statement that
the purpose of his ships being sent to
the vicinity of Santiago was to- If
possible, locate the Spanish feet. He
said that he had first seen the Spanish
| vessels in the harbor at Santiago, but
that when he reported the fact ne
found the squadron had already made
| the discovery.
Sampson's Name Kept out.
Mr.. Rayner tried to quote a state
ment from Rear Admiral Sampson to
the effect that Capt. Sigsbee had said
that on May 29 the flying squadron
was blockading Santiago, twenty-five
miles out at sea, but objection was
made to bringing Admiral sampson IN
and Mr.. Rayner asked Capt. Sigsbee
whether he had made that report to
anyone at that date. The witness re-
piled in the negative.
i In reply to a question as TO the con-
dftion of the weather at the time he
WAS at Santiago, Capt. Sigsbee said:
During the oath, 25th and 26th Of
9peJl :p9pl9sun sBM I9qlB9M 9ul AeW
conditions had been hindered. There
was more or less rain and moderately
heavy sea on those three days"
The court asked a number of ques'
tions OF Capt Sigsbee. These, with
the replies, were as follows:
Court Asks Questions.
What was the sea on the afternoon
and evening of May 26 when you COM
municated with the flying squadron
to the southward<of the port of San
tiago?"
1.-THE sea was heavy for boats, but it
was moderating, that is to say, more
moderate than II had been on two days
before. l should say. however, it would
have been a very difficult job to have
coaled from ships alongside that
night"
| srha Court. "Did Won ,oal,a a,,, effort