The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-08

Washington, Oct Lieutenant
Commander Hodgson today again oc-
cupied the greater part of the time Of
the Schley court of inquiry as a wit
ness. He was followed on the stand
by Captain w. NJ. Folger. formerly
chief of the bureau Of ordnance of the
navy department. but commander of
the New Orleans during the Spanish
war. Lieutenant Dyson also was re-
called to add some details to his for
mer testimony concerning the coal sup
ply Of the American neet during the
Santiago blockade
Commander Hodgson repeated and
extended his story OF the battle Of July
3. giving the opinion that Commodore
Schley's conduct on that occasion was
such as that of a, commandments
should have been. He also explained
q { some length his correspondence with
Admiral SchIey concerning the alleged
coilOquy between them while the San
tiago engagement was in progress. he
said he had no controversy with the
commodore but he repeated that the
commodore had said Damn the Tex
as, when told that that vessel was in
danger.
Captain Folger said that the bonn
bardments of the CristObal Colon May
81 had been eminently successful in
developing the strength Of the Spanish
shore batteries. and had shown them
the Spanish vessels had attempted to
escape at night they could not have
been seen by the blockading fleet in
bad weather.
Hodgson on the Stand
The days proceedings began with the
recall of Lieutenant Doyle and Com
mander Rodgers for the purpose Of cor
recting their previous testimony, and
when they had been excused, Ldeuten-
ant Commander Hodgson. navigator Of
the Brooklyn during the Santiago cam
paign. resumed the stand This was
his third sitting, and when he began
today's testimony the judge advocate
had not entirely completed his ques-
tons There were still a few of the
letters constituting the correspondence
between the witness and Admiral
Schley to be read, and when they were
concluded Captain Lemly and Mr..
Hanna proceeded with their questions
When the reading of the Schley-
HOdgsOn correspondence had been con-
cluded. Captain Lemly asked Mr.. Hodg
son whether his denial of the collOquy
between himself and Commodore
Schley had ever been published entire
Mr.. Hodgson replied in the negative,
saying that the last paragraph of his
letter of denial had not been printed.
This para graph referred to the enclo-
sure Of 3 newspaper clipping
Mr.. Raynor began his cross-examina-
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the Marblehead had hailed the Brook
lyn when the two vessels passed each
other as the BROOKLYN was on her way
to Cienfuegos. The witness replied in
the negative. The examination then
turned upon events about CienfuegOS.
and. in reply to Mr. Raynor's inquiry.
Mr. HOdgsOn detailed this at length
Commander HOdgson said in reply
to these questions that he had seen
the lights on the shore at Cienfuegos,
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be signals. but he had supposed they
were signals between different
/ branches OF the Spanish forces on
shore. He added that when Captain
McCalla arrived with Information as
to the n-eaning Of the signals he was
/ imm ediatelv disnatched to the shore to
communicate with the Insurgents.
There Was Heavy Weather.
He said that the progress of the
squadron was iupeded between Glen
fuegOs and Santiago by the heavy
weather. especially the smaller vessNls.
/ the Vixen and Eagle. Mr.. Raynor then
| asked:
How far were you off during this
| blockade of Santiago. from the MORO
during the day and night, May IS. -.
/ 80 and 317
The witness replied: Early in the
day our habitual position was about
six miles IN the night I think we
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harbor. a distance of about six miles -
He stated that the nicket boats, the
/ Marblehead and the Vixen. were insffe
/ the line Of the fleet, about n-iQ a8y
! between that line and the shore line.
/ The witness then in respons. 10 Is
request from Mr.. Raynor. corr f-.sis,-;
4 his description Of the naval BATH af
I July from the point where he ha 1
dropped that description at Captain
/ Lemly's request while he was on tf=
/ stand Friday. In this connection re
/ said:
/ ''The Brooklyn did all abe could Sill
got into action just as Quick as steam
/ could carry her there. We commence
I firing al soon as the first gun on .Aie
/ port bow would hear and we kent the
port battery firing until she turned with
port helm until we got All guns an
our starboard side to bear. We got
around IS quickly rs we could with
port helm until we almost parallels ed
the course of the leading Spanish yes
sell when the helm was eaSed and "Eo
! shin steered a course parallel with re
Viscava which was then the leads,se
vessel althoueh the Maria Teresa ~ b
probe blv further tn the westward tller
the Viscaya-
Smoke Dense During 2attle.
she was stsn5iag at an
] to the shore When We Eot - 80
smoke was 50 dense noNili y s. tti7 -
seen Of ANYTHING IN the rear or as
4 three Spanish vessels - N.7t15 eli sli-
Y gagged with were the.t - e .5ee q
loN and the OquRf1 q 9 z ~
was about ,. 500
hoard hosr: the lnlfri Tfon4 Day Mas q
ifff,e rr~,sa.s5 = the sta ibaaFd beam
The 0quenso IS abaft dc starbQaEd
eve esseti ned Fl tsst difection when
ren5sf 10 eaptafn cooh th&t 1T
e,e5ss L alt7er lon y for as out there.
zrS;H the eannlnE foycT He
said that we we're all
a7ena T5th tlle three Spanish Vessels
ana It seeraad hat If depended npon US
knoe& them on that sine The
seaoke WAS - dense could not see
anything and supposed that. the New
York being aHny. tho Brooklyn was
ming ahead Of the slower vessels.
he stepped out Of the coming tower
and excIaimed to me WHAT'S that on
our starboard quarter2 / looked in
that direction and saw the heavy bow
Of shin and said. That must be the
Sachusetts- lie said. No. Il could
not be the Massachusetts. she has gone
70 Guantanamo. I said: It must be the