Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-25

had been disposed of. My recollection
now Is that he told me it was at Cura-
Goa. The impression left upon my mind
was that il was somewhere in the Ven
ezuelan Cuff and that il was supplied
with ammunition and stores destined 10
Havana, and that that was undoubtedly
the point it was to reach. He said his
information was that the orders of the
Spanish fleet TO reach Havana or some
point in railroad communication with
it were imperative. and that he believed
and thought that Cienfuegos would be
the point. as that came under the
aceeptation of the order more directly.
We looked over maps and must say
Agreed With HIN.
could not imagine that anyone who
had studied the military situation of
the island at all could have supposed
that Santiago would have fulfilled any
of the conditions OF this instruction.
We had a talk together. told him
that | had been ordered to report for
duty to Admiral Remey, and that |
imagined necessarily meant himself,
and that wanted to assure him at the
outset that | should be loyal. absolute
ly and unreseryedly to the. cause we
were both representing. Captain Chad
wick, who was present. don't remem-
Der whether all the time or not-said
has known your character would know
that it would be impossible for you to
be otherwise than loyal | asked the
: Admiral if there had been established
any means of communicating with the
insurgents, whether there were any
pilots, or whether any locality was
known where they we're to be found.
He told me that he did not know, but
that when he got the situation better
in hand he would communicate with
me, but that he thought it would be
better for me to start as early as we
could get away and blockade Cienfue-
COS. said very well. that | was pre-
pared of course to go anywhere. then
went aboard my own flagship in order
to hasten the operations of coaling.
Whilst there the Algonquin came out,
bearing an order from the Secretary of
the Navy, through Commodore Remey,
directing me to go off Havana. sig
nailed to the Admiral TO know whether
or not he understood that my orders
signal that he understood that his COM
ing to Key West modified my orders,
and that should be prepared to carry
out the orders we had agreed upon in
the afternoon. | do not remember
whether that was on that afternoon or
in the morning but it was before left
for Cienfuegos."
The Next Move
on the part of the flying squadron, he
said, was from Key West to Cienfuegos,
Cuba and the Admiral told how, as the
commander in-chief of that squadron:
he had the vessels coaled so that at
seven or eight O'Clock on the morning
OF May 10Th, all the ships of the feet
turned their backs upon American soil
and laid their course for the southern
coast of Cuba. This, he said, was done
under the order of the commander-in-
chief, Admiral Sampson.
At this point, the witness quoted Ad-
miral SIMPSONS order No. 5, not fail
ing to point out as he went along, that
in this order the Admiral had said:
Il have the situation well in hand and
I will write you and give you any in
formation that suggests itself"
The first event of note on the voyage
toward Clenfuegos occurred, Admiral
Schley said, after he had been out from
Key West three or four hours. II was
then he met Captain McCa.la, in charge
of the sub-squadron, with the Marble
head at its head, which had been doing
duty on the Cuban coast near Cienfue-
Cos. whittier the Commodore with his
flying squadron was bound. He related
how. in accordance with the usual Gus
tom when a naval officer meets his SUI
perior in rank at sea, Captain McCalla
had asked permission to pass on, and
told how McCalla had sent the Eagle TO