Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-10-05
D. THE TEXAS, !"
Hodgson Testified Schley Said,
When Warned Brooklyn
Might Run Into Her.
SAMPSON TO Be SUMMONED.

This at the Request Of Rayner, to
Which Lemly Asreed-commander
Rodgers Witness--Lieutenant Dy-
son Also Gave Testimony.
Washington, Oct. Sin the Schley
naval court Of inquiry Mr. Rayner,
chief of counsel for Admiral Schley,
asked Judge Advocate Lemly to sum.
mon Admiral Sampson as witness
IN the case. The request grew out Of
a dierence in the construction of a
sentence in Admiral SIMPSONS letter
Key West, May 20, while Commodore
Schley was with the flying squadron
Cienfueges. This is known as the
Dear Schley letter, and in it, as
printed in the navy department docu-
ments supplied to the senate, the adj
miral said, after expressing his opinion
that Notwithstanding the report that
the Spanish squadron was in San
tiago, it were better TO continue to
blockade Cienfuegos and Havana.
I'VE shall continue to hold Havana
and Santiago until we receive more
positive information"
During the examination Of Comman-
der Raymond p. Rodgers this dispatch
was under consideration, when Mr..
Rayner expressed the opinion that the
word Santiago" had been mad
Y9Ttcatlg aaea y rs comma der In
chief, assuming that he meant to use
the word "Cienfuegos, as better cor
responding with the context. AS the
document was printed there was a
parenthetical note, to which Admiral
Schley's initials were attached, say
ing that evidently the wrong city had
been mentioned. Mr. Rayner asked
Judge Advocate Lemly to make this
concession, but the latter declined to
do SO, saying that he would produce
the original of Admiral Simpsons dis
patch to prove that he had said San
tiago Then Mr.. Rayner said:
Il cannot take that word Santiago
to mean anything but Clenfuegos. 1t
is an imputation upon Commodore
Schley, and | cannot permit 1t to rest
without summoning the author of that
dispatch"
TO which Captain Lemly re
sponded:
Il have told you once before you
can summon anyone you please.
Sampson to Be Summoned.
Then, retorted Mr.. Rayner, sum
mon Admiral Sampson"
This occurred only short time be-
fore the adjournment of the court UNI
til today and was the subject OF more
or less conversation of an animated
character after the days work was
concluded. Mr.. Rayner would only
say that he would insist upon the adj
miral being summoned unless the cor
rection was conceded.
The witnesses were Lieute ant C.
w. Dyson, of the bureau of steam en-
gineering, concerning the coal supply
Oh the dying squadron; Commander
Raymond Rodgers, who was second
in command OF the battleship Iowa
during the Spanish war and carried
Admiral SIMPSONS dispatches of May
20 to Commodore Schley, and Com
mander Albion G. HodgSon, who was
the navigator of the flagship Brook
Ign. While Commander Rodgers was
on the stand Mr.. Rayner submitted a
computation of shells from the Amer
lean feet which had struck the wreck
ed vessels OF Cerveras squadron,
showing that at least 81 per cent
of them were fired by the Brooklyn.
This computation, Mr.. Rayner said.
mad been prepared by Admiral Schley
upon the basis of a report made by
board Of survey, of which the witness
was the senior member.
Commander Hodgson gave
graphic description OF the battle off
Santiago, describing theN part taken
in it by the Brooklyn and explaining
the change in the entry of that yes
sells log. His testimony was in part:
1--WE were then standing for the
enemy, and as soon as the guns were
brought to bear Lieutenant Simpson
fired little off the port bow the first
gun forward, 8-inch turret. From that
time on we went considerably in to-
ward them.
Il then went down to where the
commodore was standing to get into
the coming tower, when heard him
sing out, Look out. Cook, they are
going to ram YOU
Captain Cook said he would look
after that, and starboarded the helm
d little TO parallel the course of the
leading vessel, the Maria Teresa
which had made broad sheer to
port.
He had hardly made that sheer,
however, to port before he fell off
again for the reason, apparently, that
4 shot was fired from the Brooklyn's
S-inch gun. The Teresa got abaft our
FORT beam and helm was ported on
the Brooklyn Immediately after that
We were swinging with port helm
heard the commodore sing out
hard aport, or words to that EJECT,
and Captain Cook sang out, helm is
aport.' | saw at that time the crucial
moment had arrived in making the
turn, and suggested to the commo-
dore that that turn would run us into
the Texas or very close to her"
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