The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-01
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Made Turn Rapidly.

The Spanish ships after coming out of the -harbor ran half mile before turning to the westward. The witness said he observed the Brooklyn while she was making her turn, and that she appeared 1 to be ma king it with absolute rapidity. Captain Chadwick was recalled and Mir. Hanna handed to him a number of orders from the department which he termed cautionary orders, which he rec ognized The first of these orders Is dated Washington, April 6, and informed Admiral Sampson that the department did not wish the vessels of his squad ron to be exposed to the fire of the bat teries of Havana, Santiago or other strongly fortified ports. unless the more formidable Spanish vessels should take refuge within those harbors. The second order is dated Washington, April 2s, and informs Admiral Sampson that it is with in his discretion to destroy light batte- ries which may protect vessels he wishes to attack if he can do so without ex- posture to heavy guns. The third order is dated Washington. May 5, and directs Admiral Sampson not to risk crippling his vessels against Notifications so as to prevent them successfully fighting the
 Spanish fleet If it should appear. The last order referred to, which is confiden- tial. is dated Washington, May 6, and modifies the confidential order Of April Il, | orders of April 6.
 Not Given to Schley. Captain Chadwick said these orders | had not been communicated to CommO- | ( ore Schley.
 | Under cross-examination by MT. Ray nor, the witness stated that the only de- | tail he remembered of the conversation
 on the New York, May IS. was Commo-
 dore Schley's assurance that he was per- fectly loyal to Admiral Sampson; that | he was very pleased to be under his con- | mand. and that the Admiral could be
 assured he would be perfectly loyal in | all his conduct. Captain Chadwick in- sisted the words he had quoted above was the only distinct recolle ection he had of the conversation.
 Mir. Raynor sought to make the point that as the conversation lasted twenty five minutes, there must have been other
 things said besides the words Captain Chadwick remembered.
 Captain Chadwick said that if the Ad-
 miral had spoken about not bringing the
 ships of the flying squadron under the guns of Qualifications on the south side of Cuba, it would have impressed itself very strongly on his memory, because the squadron under Admiral Sampson had just returned from a very active en- gagement with heavy batteries at San
 
 witness If he did not think that in view of the fact Admiral Schley was going to Cienfuegos and Santiag go, 1t was not like
 ly that Admiral Sampson would give him the purport of the Governments instruc- tions
 "We knew these places were not forti- fied that there was no gun to be taken into account
 Santiago's Batteries. Did you know that the batteries at Santiago were of no account"'
 Our information was that they did
 not amount to much. The St. Paul and
 the Wampatuck bombarded those batte- ries without injury on the 18th of May, two perfectly unprotected ships"
 In reply to a question by Captain Lem ly. the witness said he thought the de-
 partment's order of April was based attack the batteries at Havana. What was developed subsequently by the New Orleans in bombarding the forts
 near Santiago?" asked Captain Lemly. "She was ordered in one morning by Admiral Sampson to attack the batte- ries. She went in alone and was under fire some twenty or twenty five minutes and came out uninjured."
 Did the Texas do the same thing?" ''She was struck once" Was she injured?"
 1 No; she had one man killed and sev- | eral wounded"
 Captain Chadwick concluded his testi-
 mony at 3:55 when the court adjourned
 until Il o'clock tomorrow.