The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-05
Said the Texas Would Have to Look
Out for Herself in Santi-
ago Fight.
EODGSON'S STORY OF THE FIGHT
Co11nsel for the Applicant Demands
That Admiral Sampson
Be Summoned.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-In the Schley
naval court of inquiry, Mr.. Rayner, CHIEF
counsel for Admiral Schley, asked Judge
Advocate Lemly to summon Admiral
Sampson as a witness in the case. The
request grew out of the difference in
the construction of a sentence in Ad-
raj SIMPSONS letter to Commodore
Schley, written from Key West, May
2. while Commodore Schley with the
flying squadron, lay off Cienfuegos. This
is known as the Dear SchIey'' letter
and it was printed in the navy depart
ment documents supplied to the senate.
The admiral said after expressing his
opinion that notwithstanding the report
that the Spanish squadron was in Santi-
ago, it were better to continue to block
ade Cienfuegos and Havana, I'VE shall
continue to hold Havana and Santa go
until We receive more positive informa-
ton
During the examination of Commander
Raymond P Rogers this dispatch was
under consideration, when Mr.. Rayner
expressed the opinion that the word San
tiago had been inadvertently used by
the commander-in-chef, assuming that
he meant to use the word Cienfuegos as
better corresponding with the context.
AS the document was printed there
was a parenthetical note, to which Adj
miral Schley's initials We're attached,
saying that evidently the wrong city had
been mentioned. Mr.. Rayner asked
Judge Advocate Lemly to make this con-
cession, but the latter declined to do so.
saying that he would produce the origi
nal of Admiral Sampson's dispatch to
prove that he had said Santiago. Then
Mr.. Rayner said:
SAMPSON TO BE CALLED.
'I can't take that word Santiago to
mean anything but Cienfuegos. 1t is an
imputatiOn upon Commodore Schey and
1 cannot permit it to rest without sum
moning the author of that Dispatch
to which Capt. Lemly responded: II
have told you once before, you can sum-
mon anyone you please.
Then" retorted Mr. Rayner, sum
mon Admiral Sampson
This occurred only short time before
the adjournment of the court for the day,
and was the subject of more or less con-
Versation of an animated character after
the days work was concluded. Mr.. Ray
ner would only say that he would insist
upon the admirars being summoned un-
less the correction was conceded.
The witnesses for the day were LieIt.
c. w. Dyson, of the bureau of steam
engineering, concerning the coal supply
OF the lying squadron. Commander
Raymond P. Rogers, VINO was second
in command of the battleship Iowa dur
Ing the Spanish war and carried Admiral
SIMPSONS dispatches of May 20 TO Com
mOdore Schley, and Commander Albon
-. 11OOSSOu, WHO WAS the navigator. OF
the flagship Brooklyn. While Com
mander Rodgers was on the stand Mr.
Rayner submitted a computation of
shells from the American feet which
had struck the wrecked vessels of Ger
vera's squadron showing that at least
"a per cent Of them were fired by the
Brooklyn. This computation, Mr.. Ray
ner said, had been prepared by Admiral
Schley upon the basis of a report made
by a board of surveyors Of which the
witness was the senior member. Com
mander Hodgson gave a
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION
of the battle off Santiago, describing the
part taken in it by the Brooklyn, and
explaining the change in the entry OF that
vessels log.
He said he had been navigator OF Com
modore Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn,
during the war with SPAIN and was en-
the bridge the day of the battle of July
3. Detailing the particulars of that en-
gagement he said:
Il heard the executive officer, Lieu
tenant Commander Mason sing out:
Clear ship for action and the crews
Immediately dispersed to quarters, 1
having sounded the general alarm pre-
viOusly. ---e commodore shortly ap-
peared on the bridge. We were at that
time headed about west-northwest or to
the westward or northwest. l told him
that there was nothing doing and he
said, Go ahead I rang six bells and
ASKED If we had not better hold her
head steady to see what course the
Spaniards proposed to pursue I do
rot remember his reply exactly to at,
because Immediately afterWard I told
him they were evidently making 1or us,
and he said, Go for them and 1 rang
four bells and put helm aport.
SCHLEY STAYS OUTSIDE.
Capt. Cook appeared on the bridge
at this time and 1 told him that every
thing was connected up at the coming
tower and that We were already going
ahead; and, in fact, we were going
ahead. The commodore took his posi-
tlon on a platform he had built around
tie coming tower where he could be in
easy communication with the command
ing officer inside, and 1 remained on the
bridge.
The executive officer had given pre-
viously the order to man --4e starboard
batteries. sang out to him we were
gcing into action with port helm. and
he shifted over to the port batteries.
We were then standing for the enemy
AID as soon as the guns We're brought
to bear Lieut.. Simpson fired a little off
the port bow the first gun from the
forward eight-inch turret.
From that time on we went consider
ably in toward them.
Il then went down to where the COM
modore was standing to get into the
ccnning tower, when I heard him sing
out, Look out, Cook, they are going to
ram YOU
Capt Cook said he would look ont
for that, and starboarded the helm a
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. how
ever, to port, before he fell off again
for the reason, apparently, that shot
was fired from the Brooklyn's eight-incb
gun. The Teresa got abaft our port
beam and the 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 effect, and
Capt. Cock sang out, Helm is aport..
I saw at that time the crucial moment