The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-01

| 5d W licl IL ltll SllDIl. l<iSuICibiAS Hill had the other gun in that turret. l gave him the range at 11,5OO yards and he fred and that shot struck very near the stern of the Colon. Both tWelve-inch guns were disabled at the fire from that extreme elevation After that we stood mile and half, possi- ply two miles, to our blockading sta- tion That was all I saw done to in jure the Colon.''
 The witness was then asked about the blockade off Santiago under Com modore Schley. He said the squadron stood seven or eight miles out during the daytime and a little farther at night, with the Vixen and Marblehead on the inside at night
 The judge advocate asked the witness concerning statement by a lieutenant of the Spanish navy, printed by the navy department, to the effect that at dark the American ships withdrew to the southward and disappeared. The | introduction of this book was objected to, and Admiral Dewey said: The wit ness has already told what distance was maintained by the fleet. We don't care for that kind of information. Ad- | miral Evans was there and can answer | for himself. We want facts, not news paper articles.
 Describing the battle off Santiago, Admiral Evans said:
 When Cervera's feet came out of the harbor the Iowa was at the center of the line, with the Brooklyn to the left"
 Admiral Lemly-"Do you remember ,rI,at co1e hot
 "The only vessel between the Iowa and the Brooklyn was the Texas" Did you have an opportunity of ob- serving the movements of the Brooklyn on this occasion?"
 You mean during the battle?'
 T mean the beginning of the bat tle."
 'I saw the Brooklyn when the fight began. When I reached the bridge of the Iowa the Brooklyn was still off to the westward, headed, I should say, northwest. That was just as the fight began. I saw her again possibly five minutes afterwards, when she was steaming westward very fast, firing her port batteries, headed northwest toward the head of the Spanish column. I did not see the Brooklyn again until my attention was directed to her by the navigator calling to me, Look out, cap- tain, for the Texas I went on the port bridge, where the navigator was standing, and said, Where the devil is the Texase' The navigator said, Here she is, sir, in the smoke I said to myself, Captain Philip will look af- ter the Texas and went below In a few minutes the navigator called out again, Look out, captain, you will run into the Texas I walked over to the port side of the bridge and saw the Brooklyn's smokestack and military masts. She was lying directly across the bows of the Texas. The Texas was apparently backing and dangerously close to the Iowa. The Brooklyn seem ed to be one hundred yards directly in front of the Texas. eased the helm of the Iowa a little, ported her little, and just at that moment the Oregon came my lee and passed between me and the Texas, and the three boats were punched there.
 "At that time the Brooklyn was shut out in the smoke and I saw no more of her until the Colon had passed well to the westward of me, when some one | on the bridge said, The Brooklyn is knocked out
 q went on the bridge to see what had | happened, and she was then about a mile and half forward of the port | beam of the Iowa. with the Colon seven ] or eight miles ahead and on her star board bow. From that time on the, fir ing was light and I could see the Brook lyn occasionally. The Colon was on her | starboard bow. On the port quarter of | the Colon, well astern of her, was the | Oregon, and astern of her and well off | to the southward was the Brooklyn, with the Vixen off shore of the Brook lyn The Iowa at the time was directly | in the wake of the Colon, with the Vix- en a little on her starboard bow
 Flow was the Iowa headed by the comDass?"
 "To the westward, heading for the enemy's ships I do not know whether we were headed west by south or west by north.'
 On his cross-examnation by MT Ray ner Admiral Evans said that he had left Key West with the Iowa for Cien- fuegos on May 20, and that he knew before leaving that port that secret code had been arranged for communi- eating with the insurgents on shore at Cienfuegos. because Captain Chadwick had given him this information.
 He came on board the Iowa." said the witness, "to deliver dispatches to