Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-16


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Id hiei'ipi 'l i "ill';! SlI''" liI'I' wa
= Soou iIiuins i!act H. mics from 'leii,
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PEN {.
s"liil!ulf'g' lhr witness Said ihat III
~ q. ''1i,S "Iit SNth .inIiI't41,-l\ ~ Yer
Cart McC ana report mat the span,
,,irSs WIZ lot AZ iS'li uFf'S, l" h'"ctt"
!" santiago. II" H"d not H'.'Fu tl''l til'
commodore nid uther intentions jnah T..
"a !olil!W!th ald n hneW hoihll2 MI
IN alleged letter written IN that gate m
commodore ocnltE SaAlh mat ne W9uI"
not leaNc untli me -9th. INC next ga, F.;
NJ VINES; win - ti'e aiItFr"
uiii' ny u todiAiS IN MS ~ - a.
Philip for that statement.
Speaking Of Thu sreed III The BROOKLYN
in the chas.. uf the Colon. thp witnr.,
said that It had been Increased gradual
~. The record made of the revolutions
If the engines showed thar tb., y,ssal
had covered - miles
NIr Hanna asked why tho Yncatan
cI-1nrn, r1th.r tba, thn N-in,iv..,,j ,,.!
sa.n MID Huh seIactrd III m,,<in. th4
rntrocrlde movement. The witness I'll
piled that his opinion was that the s.
lection had been made because OF tn.
general feeling that the ships of the en-
envy might have gotten ont Of the har-
Dor ut Santiago and gone to the west
ward. In that event il MAS telt that TIN
Yucatau channel route. would hc the bet
ter The immersion thut Ceryera haG
left Santiago. he said. had been created
by information received from the Atiull.
but he could not now recall lust what
that information was The witness sand
that the fleet under Commodore Schley
had never been withdrawn from Santiago
to 4 distance ont at sea at night Az /
rule the ships were farther inside Il,
night Ihan during the day
The Court-'Wcre YOU present when
tgI,,.
Commodore Schley Oft Santiago"
II met the captain at tie gangway. but
whether he gave the dispatches t. th-
commodore then cannot say"
If YOU heard those dispatches read. or
read them Yourself. please state their
purport."
..Tha dieuotcb no brouoht think CON
t,inaG the NO., jti,. !, H.,
,,d had tbat tbc .na,,t. uias III S,nti,.n
/ r.memhnr thnt disnatrh III hrinp MI
first information az any nnsitiveness tbIt
we had bnd sine l%ayin tonf,eeos
could identify the disnatch if | saw il =
..\Vhat orders if any were sionalIed 70
the sauadrdn hv the "Y Hr"eklvn s from tho
i'm. I'M Snnnis;, sn,adr,n ,nraarrd rr,n
ing out until the Colon I'm ashore.
"Tha prescribed signal was that the
SPANISH fleet was escanirg. The next sig
nal was clear shin for action the next
signal was close in. There was a signal
when the Niscaya was hopelessy out Of
it for, the oregon to cease firing. Thr
next signal was to the Oregon to open
fire with l3-inch guns. There We're sig
nails then made between the oregon ana
The Brooklyn. When the Oregon would
fire We woIld notify her of the fail of her
shells. When we fired the oregon notified
US. Then. upon the approach of the New
York when she was observed signal was
made. | think 10 The Texas. to be repeat-
al. notifying the c3mmandcr-in-chieft that
we had won n great victory"
We're these signals answered and thes,
orders obeycd by the ships of the squad
ROM"