Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-10-15

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Loop and schley H ad Nothing
to Do With II.
Declares He Always Regarded Ad-I
miral Schley as Brave and
ss55: Patriotic Officer. :$ sS
Washington, Oct. Is. Captain f. "a.
Cook was the first-neW witness OF the
day called before the Schley court of
Inquiry. He was called by the navy
department, but as he also is on Adj
miral Schley's list Of witnesses, he
I was consdd cred, like Lieut. COM
mander Hodgson and Lieutenant
Doyle, as a witness for both sides OF
the controversy During the war with
Spain Captain Cook was commander.
of the flagship Brooklyn and also Adj
Emiraf Schley's chief of staff, thus oc-
I Scupying the same relative position to-
4 Admiral Schley til at Captain Chad
wick occupied to Admiral Sampson.
His appearance on the stand therefore
created considerable interest and his;
Testimony ives listened to attentively.
After previous witnesses had cor
rected their testimo Captain Cook
4 was called. He was questioned by Mr..
Hanna and resp onded in clear and dis
tinct tones. He said he had been at
Key West on May 19.
hat inform tion did you have at
that time concerning the whereabout
OF CerVera's heet? ~ asked Mr.. Hanna.
MY impr ssions now are that sim
ply from rumors we nnd derstood they
I had left the Canary stands and a part
of them had been lighted at Marti-t
nique and from consul lar j nforma lion,
i or perhaps information sent by the
Harvard that they had gonesto Guar
acoa. That is all from inpr ession.'' 3
s5s5$$ living the reasons for departure Of
I the flying squadron for Ciehfuegos5
Captain Cook said the squadron had
been sent to that port to intercept
i and meet the Spanish @ squadron, it:
I having been determine !; as we belieV-
ssed at that time, by them to make Glen
fuegos their objective point 5, He had
/ understood that the Spanish heet car
ried munitions of war for Havana and
1t was believed that they vi ould go to
SCienfuegos, because of its accessible
( 3ity to Havana,
Captain Cook detailed conversa-
Z tion between ComInod dore Schley and
Captain Chester. While the squadron
was en route to Cienfuegos. He said
8 there had been tai X between them of
c0aling on the 8south hern coast Of Cuba.
s q
.sS discussed coaling Facilities.
he only thing i recolle t,'ss he said,
was that Conmod dore Schley ques-
y TONED Capt tain Chester very closely as
to the Facilities for coaling ships on
the south side of Cub a. 81 :. 81 38s$
Do YOU know Wha nformatio ion was
4 received ?''
think they consulted a chart at
4 the time and sonnet ing was said about
Cape Cruz. Fecolleet afterwards
4 looking at the chart there and it did
G III ot seem to- be a Favorable place.
4 know the sub ject# of ing was early
cons nsidered even before leaving Key
" Vest.
Admiral Dewey 81 N as your answer
that Cape Cruz did or lid not look Like
a favorable place did not quite IN
81 derstand 70 ,ss
5ssI said II reeolleet very well my I'M
4 pressions at that time were that Cape
Cruz lid not seem al favorable place
Il for coal ing ships from col Il iers q Il
5lg n Iann Perhaps the court
would like To- laea vi You Thought
SO. s5$ls
could not well see how the larger
q ships could get far enough Sin there SO
that the col liers Z would be smooth
enough To go alongside g and coal ship 4
ssaptafn Cook said that upon aTTfY:
Ing oif gienfuegos on the morning oi
May az d bIoc clade was Immediately
& established as the firing OF guns was
heard and III was believed that CerYera
lad arrived and "a. fete In honor OF his
9 app earanee was on.
Fart thWorks on the shore were seen,
but they were not fred on because II
was nonsid deTed desirable not to unnee,
essarily expend ammuniti lon
e think between that time and the
81 arrival of til u Adula, lit was presumed
sst lat the whole beach "a s occur dss
asI he said w e saw cavalry and others
on the beach a'I he prob habili cf e
boat landing was liked of. he idea
as that W H. #olIld have to- 30 in
pretty We'll I'd the westward and 4 al
iii & 1T. had some conversation With
4 \ the CON dore about it but do not
Tscollact On the arri igal sof the Adula
MA fully exp ected To get some inf nforn1a
ticn. !,
you see any signal tights %
sll oreA III vhile you were there e29'
les, the first thing after we ar'
" rived On May a 4 2. q 3
here were those 81 gnal8 lights aIid
at were hey r..
Felt Sure Il Ava as The spaniards
81 Judged them to hare been about
IS Six OIL seven niles to the west ard
three lights, one ahead of the others
very distinctly, ara d be discussion thai
took place on the ship. It'd which
think the commod lore took part. v 81
prsfty clear ev vidence that Il was i
ignal of soIne kind t0 assist hat fieel
ana that hs cert taialy had them y
there. know he fell loabl sure a.
Il thak time that he had hem hare.
ere could haye been no doubt