Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-10-04
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also E0StlpSQ RIIeuy. he SAID That on
the day Of the battle the starboard en-
gines were stopped and the machinery
reversed. Captain Wise was ques-
toned at considerable length as to
what he had done before the arrival
Of the flying; squadron OF Santiago
towards locating: Cerverass dset. j.. =
He said that: while he had satisfied
himself Of the pre1ence: Of the Span.
ish feet he had been content to com.
municate his knowledge: to Admiral
'SchleZ through : Captain Sigsbee, not
considering It necessary to make d.
rect communication with the COM
mapder-in-chief. <s.-.. -,~sisw-;-
Lieutenant Wood gave the particu-
lars Of his delivery Of dispatches from
Admiral Sampson to Admiral Schley
on May %, while the admiral lay of
Cienfuegos. He said; that Schley
seemed very nervous and especially
anxious to know what SIMPSONS in.
tentions were.
Washington, Sept. 2S.-In the Schley
court Of inquiry letter was pre-
sented from Rear Admiral Sampson
asking to be allowed to be represented
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refused to grant the request.
The principal witnesses of the day
were Lieutenant John Hood, who
commanded the dispatch boat Hawk
during the Spanish war, and Captain
Bowman H. McCalla, who was
in command of the Marblehead. The
testimony of both these officers dealt
with the delivery of dispatches from
Admiral Sampson to Commodore
Schley and both related conversations
with the latter. Captain McCalla gave
in detail his part in arranging code
of signals with the Cuban insurgents,
and his communications with them
near Cienfuegos on May "a, 1898, when
it was. learned definitely that Ger
vera's feet was not in the harbor
there. Captain McCalla expressed the
opinion that coaling was feasible off
Santiago at the time Schley began his
retrograde movement.
Washington, Sept. 30.-More evil
dence was brought out in the Schley
inquiry to show that many of the
navy officers under Schley at San
tiago did not cooperate with him in
his direction of the squadron. Cap
tain McCalla of the Marblehead testi-
fed that so far as he knew the code
of signals agreed upon with the Cuban
insurgents was not made known to
Schley.
The court heard the testimony Of
Lieutenant Commander w. H. H.
Switzerland, who commanded the
Eagle during the Spanish war, and
also that Of Lieutenant Carey B.
Barnes. The latter is a cipher expert
in the navy department., and his testi-
mony was devoted to showing that
the dispatch from Commodore Schley
to the navy department of May %,
1898, saying that he could not, much
to his regret, obey the orders of the
department, as printed in the official
reports, was a correct translation
of the message as forwarded from the
Harvard at Kingston. 80
Commander Soutnerland explained
the condition Of the Eagle during the
campaign and told of the part that
vessel had played. He said that the
slow progress made in the cruise to
Santiago was due to the fact that the
vessel was one:third full of water.
Washington, Oct. Rear Admiral
Evans, who as captain commanded
the battleship Iowa during the Santa
60 campaign, was a withess before the
Schley naval court of inquiry Monday.
The admiral testified at Length, Ut
no new points were brought out. He
admitted having the code OF si01als
arranged with the Cuban insurgents
at Cienfuegos, but did not give thsQ to
Qoh1ovk hnoo,1co hn 0sod $hAa rovn.