The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-01

2S. and h. also recalled. he said that cn that evening he had seen the press boat Premier and had warned those aboard against remaining where they were be- cause of the danger of being attacked by torpedo boat destroyers.
 Captain Sigsbee said that in his inter- view with Commodore Schley on board inc Brooklyn, he was told by the Commo- dore that the St. Paul (Sigsbees boat was to go with the flying squadron to Key West and on the following day was to take the Texas in tow. There was almost no catechism at that time on the part of the Commodore. volunteered almost everything that said about San tiago, and the Spanish fleet, said the witness. His whole convei sation was on the subject of coal and nothing but coal and so far as I could judge. he aireadv had made up his mind to return to Key West. He told me that he was going 10 Key West" xY.o.. statements and also that of the Assoclat- ed Press correspondent, Graham, was ruled out of order. Captain SigsDee saIo he would like to make a statement .o show that Mir Graham was mistaken. put Admiral Dewey said that no re-examina- On cross-exanlination, Mir. Raynor ask ed about the statement that the Commo,
 5ore had been warned against torpedo hcat dAstroyers and the witness said that he had given this warning because ne helieyed from his information from the Navy Department that the Spaniaros eyom were III belieyed we'd they were there notwith- standing that on the 29th you thought as you have heretofore testified, that tnes were going in there. Is that correct.
 "Ouite so. I thought 1t possible the! might not have gone in"
 MT. Raynor: Let me get that right you thought on the 2Sth they might DC there, although on the 18th in your oncia report you say you though. you Saw them approaching that port?"
 .arbat is quite so. They might have heen out or they might have been in I was prepared for either event. Associated Press Dispatch. Contain Siesbee said that if permitted to ro into greater detail he thought he couId show that MT. Graham, the Asso' ciated Press correspondent had been mis- taken in his statement as to his tSigs- bee's) conversation with Commooore Schley on board the Brooklyn. MT. Ray nor. however. declined to question on this point. In response to Mir. Hanna IS aues- lions Captain Sigsbee said he carried an Associated Press dispatch handed him py Commodore Schley which ne was asheu to send from the Mole. That dispatch stated that during the period covering the retograde movement. Commodore Schley had acted on his information and judgment, This dispatch did not state that the Spanish fleet was not in the harbor of Santiago.
 Former machinist Alfred B. Claxton,
 who served in the engine room Of the Texas, on the day of the battle on San
 tiago, testified that he adhered to his former statement that the engines of the
 Texas were reversed on that day, but added, q will state that there is pos sibility of my being mistaken, but think I was correct in making the statement did because my recollection is very clear. '
 Lieutenant Roys.
 Lieutenant John H. Roys, a watch and division officer on board the Eagle during the war, told of the Eagles meeting the Scorpion, under orders from Captain Mo- Calla and said that there had been nc communication between the Eagle and the Brooklyn on that occasion; that the Eagle had not been nearer than mile or a mile and a half to the southward from the Brooklyn and that she did not SC
 under her quarter. He also stated thai he had not heard the statement which Il has been testified to was made from the Eagle on tsaat occasion that there was nc news from the Spaniards. Lieutenant
 Roys also testified that when the Eagle had returned to Cienfuegos the Brooklyn | had signalled to her to come within hail | It was then, he said, that the converse ton between Commodore Schley ant | Commander Southerland of the Eagle oc | cured, relative to sending the Eagle t' Port Antonio. Lieutenant Roys saiC that Commodore Schley had asked | Commander Southerland how much coa 1 he had and had added that asAshe did no have enough he would have to send her tC Antonio for fuel. The witness said MT Southerland had replied: ''I should like very much to remain with the flying squadron. l could coal from the collier and could take enough to last for severa
 days" The Commodore, however. dis
 patched the Eagle to Port Antonio.
 Was anything said about the Eagle:
 being dangerously short of coal? asked Captain Lemly.
 II am quite positive that nothing ol the kind was said in view of the fac
 that we had twenty-seven tons aboard . | replied the witness.
 Quartermaster Anderson. Neil Anderson who was chief quarter master on the Brooklyn in the battle O July 3 and who was stationed at thu
 wheel in the coming tower on that occa sion was examined next. In response t
 questions by Captain Lemly, MT. Ander son said: When l entered the coming tower the wheel was hard aport. Tn first order remember distinctly Tn reter ence to the wheel was hard aport."
 Who gave that order?"
 That order came from Commodor, Schley."
 What did you then do?"
 Put helm hard aport, sir"
 | Did understand you to say that wher you first took the helm, the. helm wa:
 hard aport?"
 "The helm was hard aport. Helm wa!
 put hard aport from the bridge"
 The witness said that he heard Commo dore Schley after they made the turn en courage the men in the turret. Hi
 words were" said the witness. " Fir'
 steady and deliberately, but make ever!
 shot count He said that several times.
 In cross-examination by MT. Raynor the witness said that during the early | part of the engagement he had heard
 something said about an order being given to stand by to ram' and in this l connection he said that COmmodors