The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-04

| from where was, in the sense that he
| had better observation of what we did,
| l concluded he was perfectly right
| reasoned out in my own mind that if we
| turned with starboard helm, we I'M
| questionably would have picked up the
| Spanish ships on our starboard beam,
and not on our starboard quarter"
| Lieut. Doyle was then excused and
| Lieutenant Commander Clifford ].
Boush, who had made for the court the
| large charts of the positions of the YES
| sells of the American squadron while off
Santiago, was called to identify those
| charts and to state the date upon which
they were prepared Commander Boush
| also gave information concerning the
| phases of the moon during the Santiago
campaign as taken from the American
Ephemeris.
AS SEEN FROM THE INDIANA.
Capt. William c. Dawson, of the Unit
ed States marine corps was the next
witness. He was the signal officer on
board the battleship Indiana during the
battle of Santiago, and said that he had
noticed the Brooklyn when that vessel
turned to the southwark He had sup
posed the ship was injured and had gone
out of action.
He thought she went 1000 yards or
more to the south.
/ Capt. Dawson said that during the bat
tie he had position on the flying
bridge beside Capt. Taylor and had been
| able to see well. The Indiana had, he
said, occupied a position at the eastern
| extremity of the arc of the blockading
| circles, while the Brooklyn had been at
the west end of the line.
THE Indiana he said, was heading
approximately north and the Brooklyn
northerly and easterly. The Texas was
fret actO of hn
ing in the same general direction as that
vessel. l had a clear view of all
| the vessels up to the time the Indiana
was directed to return during the chase
| of the Colon
| In reply to a question from Capt. Lem
ly, the witness said at this point he had
seen no signals from the Brooklyn d.
| recting the movements of the fleet dur
| ing the battle. Continuing his narrative.
| he said:
''At the beginning all the ships turned
in toward the Spanish fleet, which was
emerging from the harbor. The Spanish
vessels came out in a southwesterly di-
! rection and ported helm continuing to the
westward, practically parallel with the
coast line. Our ships, then not having
as great speed as the enemy's, fell be-
hind, so that the Indiana, Oregon, Iowa
and Texas starboarded helm and made
all the speed they could in a parallel
course with the Spanish squadron. did
not see the exact movement of the
Brooklyn. The first noticed her was
twenty or twenty-five minutes after the
action began, when turned my eyes to
the westward and saw the Brooklyn
standing apparently
DUE SOUTHWARK,
directly at right angles to the course we
and the other American ships were steer
ing. This struck me so forcibly, because
the other ships were in column and
steaming westward. The Brooklyn was
in close proximity to several others of
our ships; they appeared punched, but
the Brooklyn was steaming southwark
and firing with her stern guns, while
some of the others, I could not d1stin-
guish which, were close to her. The
spectacle was, so remarkable that I re-
ported the fact to the commanding officer
of our ship, saying that I feared the
Brooklyn was injured and was going out.
She, however, changed her course and
Went west on a line well outside that OF
the other ships. I think the Oregon was
| then in the lead, and either the Oregon or
! the Texas, with the Iowa following and
| the Indiana in the rear The Brooklyn
| steered a course parallel but a mile or
| mile and a half to the southwark,
| skirting along the column formed by the
| fleet By that time the chase was we'll
under way and the relative positions of
| the vessels were not changed"
Mr.. Rayner's oss-eXamination of
| Capt Dawson was directed toward SHOW
| ing that his testimony was based upon
| recollection, and that consequently was
| liable to be inaccurate. The witness ad-
mitted that he testified from memory,
| and he said:
81 was on deck as signal officer, and
| it was my duty to observe closely and
! make report
He said that the Brooklyn had gone
| about 2,0O0 yards to the southwark.
| Then Capt. Dawson was excused.
Lieut.. c.. w. Pyson, of the bureau of
steam engineering, navy department, was
| introduced to present a tabulated state
| ment, showing the amount of coal upon
the vessels of the flying squadron from