The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-19

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S-Just before
the SchIey court of inquiry adjourned
today, Attorneys sRayner, counsel for Ad-
miral Schley informed the court that he
hoped to be able to conclude the presenta-
ton of testimony for the applicant by the
close of next week. He added that he
thus far had not had opportunity to coTf-
suit with witnesses who are still to Sbe
heard He therefore asked that an adj
jeurnment be taken from today until
Monday.
Speaking for the court, Admiral Dewey
said ne was mos -iappy to grant the
request. AccordiL5ly the court adjourn
ed until II o'clock Monday.
The list of witnesses examined today in
cluded eight names, but the interroga-
tion of the last of the witnesses called
had not been concluded when, the day
came to a close. The last witness was
Lieut. B. w Wells Jr., who served dur
ing the war with Spain as Admiral
Schley's flag lieutenant or private secre-
tary. The other seven persons heard
during the day were in the order in which
they were called, Lieutenant Commander
Reginald P. Nicholson, who was navi-
gator of the Oregon; Medical Director
Charles NJ. de Valin, a surgeon; Capt.
!. L. Hannum, retired engineer; Lieut..
Thomas E. Carter, Ensign w. P. Cronan,
Carpenter j. B. Warford all of whom
served on the Brooklyn, and J. L. Hun
ly, who was the chief machinist on board
the Texas.
Lieutenant Commander Nicholson told
the story of the battle of July 8, as he
saw it from the deck of the Oregon. He
said the movements of the Oregon had
not been controlled by signals in the
Brooklyn, and he expressed the opinion
that the Oregon was nearer the Colon
than the Brooklyn was. Mr.. Hunly said
hl,-L
not been stopped during the battle of
July s.
From the line of the examination re-
lating to the fight of July already pur-
sued, it is evident that it is the intention
of Mr.. Rayner to have Lieut.. Wells give
complete history Of Admiral Schleys
actions during the Spanish war.
Wnen the court adjourned he had
reached the pericd of the battle of July
g. having gone quite minutely into other
Ecioents of the campaign up to that
tine, including the receipts of dispatches
from Admiral Sampson
AS SEEN FROM THE OREGON.
Lieutenant Commander Nicholson. of
The Oregon, told the story of the battle
OF July 8, which he had observed as navi-
s'ator of the Oregon. He was he said,
on the deck of his vessel, and added:
Occupying the position I did during
the day of the engagement, I necessarily
saw considerable of it. The incidents
CT that day commenced about $780, or five
1I1n-tes before, when the first call to
quarters had been sounded Then the
Spanish ships were seen coming out of
the harbor, were seen in fact by practi-
cally the whole crew at the same time
When the first ship started to go around
the cry went up, There they CO. I look
ed toward the harbor and saw the first
Ship Her bow was making a turn into
the last reach of the harbor on her way
out She was followed in succession by
the others. I went to my station, first on
the bridge, then down to the coming
tower and saw that the proper connec-
tons were made. In the meantime the
signal had been sounded to general quar-
ters, and by this time steam was coming
up, all the boilers and blowers were going
full tilt, and few minutes afterWard
Capt. Clark came up. We turned the
ship, going Slowly at first, the speed in
creasing all the time, turned ship with
starboa"d helm and started in toward
the enemy. They came out at full
speed, apparently much faster than we
We're at this time BY the time we
Strengthened out well to the westward
they were all ahead of US. The Iowa
started in, she being to the westward of
of us, apparently got in closer to the
enemy than we did, because we passed
under her stern. A few minutes after
that on our course to the westward we
passed under the stern of the Texas, ap-
parently still in the water I called Capt.
Clark's attention to this Of course firing
commenced on both sides at the time the
first ship cleared the mouth of the har-
Dor. We returned the fire at long range
probably three and a half or four miles
off at that point.
when We crossed under the Texas
stern we saw the Iowa coming out on q
course nearly parallel to converging with
ours. I noticed her little abaft our
starboarG beam. Capt. Clark at the same
time noticed her and called my attention
to her and told me to look out and avoid