The Saint Paul globe., 1901-10-01
FIGHTING BOB HEARD
Continual From Firs. p.

OpGueQ up lilC SOdlltlS question frn1
question was as follows:
How far could the Minnesnolis have
gone with her 4qq tons of coal at the
| time you state?'@C 81
IF l had burned 400 tons of coal could
| have made something like twelve or thir-
! teen hundred miles. That would have left
the bunkers empty I was burning about
| 50 tons a day. and on that making four
teen or fifteen knots
SHIPS Goa" SUPPLY
Drawing from Capt. Jewell the fact that
the distance from Santiago to Kew West
is $50 miles, Mr.. Raynersasked:
I'm view of what you said just now.
will you explain the signals I read: $3.50
p m, May 2eth, flagship to the Minneap-
oils: Have you enough7eoal to go to Key
| West?' Minneapolis to flagship: Just
enough How do eyou explain that?"
Il am giving my recollection at the
time. AS L said, my&coal supply was re-
! duced and [ was concerned. There were
| great many signals being made, and I
replied to the signal without consulting
the coal account thoroughly, and L
thought three days was about the limit
| of the distance l could safely co.
There is an error here of about 500 to
600 miles. Eight hundred and !, 200 or 1900
are very different
Il estimated the distance could steam
L did not usually provide for burning
! every ounce of coal in the bunkers, and
| furthermore we have got to allow for con-
| tingencies. 1 was hauling the fires from
| the boilers very often on account of the
! leaks, starting fresh fires in other boilers
| My coal expenditure was variable. I
| could not depend on it.
Then at this time you had just enough
according to these. signals, to go to Key
| West
II arrived at Key West with just 100
| tens of coal on board
Capt. Jewell was then excused and
Capt. McCalla was recalled for the pur-
| pose Of correcting his testimony. While
he was on the stand the court asked him
two questions, which, together with the
replies, were as follows:
The court: WAS there any place in the
vicinity of Capt Cruz where large vessels
could have found protection from wester-
ly or southwesterly winds?"
Witness: There was no place where
the large ships could take protection from
westerly and southwesterly winds The
prevailing winds were from the east, and
a southwesteriy wind is of short duration
in that vicinity and means change of di
rection to the north very quickly"
The court: Had the fleet of Cervera
been in the harbor of Cienfuegos, could it
have been seen by the vessels blockading
that port?"
Witness: ''I should say not. The up
per part of the masts might have been
seen if they had been in the stretch of
the river where it turns to the east, but
1 should not expect to have found them
there If they were behind the hill they
could not have been seen, in my opinion
Capt. McCalla then was excused finally,
and the court adjourned for luncheon,
with a statement by Capt Lemly that
he he five
witness of the afternoon sitting.
FIGHTING. BOB EVANS.
When the court convened for the after
noon session, Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans, who as captain commanded the
battleship Iowa during the battle Of San
tiago, was called to the witness stand.
He stated that he had first joined the fly
ing squadron off CienfuegoS on May q,
at 1 D. M, when he took the dispatches
from Admiral Sampson to Commodore
Schey These dispatches he had sent to
Commodore Schley by his executive Off
cer Commander Rogers he not seeing the
commodore himself. AS the dispatches
were sealed, he did not know their con-
tents.
Judge Advocate: .'Please state what, if
anything, was done while this squadron
was off Cienfuegos toward developing the
fact as to whether the Spanish squadron
under Admiral Cervera was not or was in
the harbor of Cienfueges.
There was nothing done, so far as
know
What, if anything, within your knowl-
edge was done toward destroying or pre-
venting the further completion of the en-
emys batteries in the vicinity of Glen
fuegos''
ION Sunday afternoon, I am quite sure
it was, Commodore Schley formed his
squadron in columns and stood in to
a range of about a mile and half
from shore, made turn and stood out
again. That is the only thing L know"
STEAMED IN-AND OUT AGAIN.
WAS any attack made upon the enemy
or by the enemy at that time?"
No; they all got up and stood on the
breastworks and looked at us. We steam
ed out again. There was no firing on
either side.'' +f5
Were you within range then of the
batteries in the vicinity of Cienfuegos
with the heavier guns of your ship?'
81 did not see any batteries. There
was a work that was completing tnerex'
Were you within range of tnis?''
"Quite easy range yes.
1.-THE battery of the Iowa consisted of
What?"
-Four twelve-inchg eight eight-inch and
twelve four-inch guns,
''Were there embryo batteries within
range of your eight-ineh guns when you
steamed in?"
"They were within easy range
Were they within range of the four
inch guns?'' st
'I should think so, yes
did the Iowa ship coal while off Glen
fuegos, and if so, how much did she
take?"
TOOK ON COAL.
1--WE took in 25O tons of coal on the
23d. We began about I in the morning
took coal from a collier alongside-the
Merrimac, 1 think"
Speaking of the condition of the wealth
er made by the Iowa on May "a and 70,
the witness said that on the eve of the
25th the sky was overcast, and that the
weather was again squally; on the after
noon it was worse, there being good
deal of rain, with long sea.
He said that after leaving Cienfuegos
the vessel had steamed to a point about
thirty miles south of Santiago, arrived
there on the evening of the 18th, and
that at that time the squadron was head
ing to the east The weather at that
time, he said, was not such as to prevent
the coaling of ships at that date. The
Iowa at that time had about S25 tons OF
coal aboard, sufficient for steaming 5000
miles.
On blockade the ship used about thirty
or forty tons of coal a day.
"Why was the retrograde movement
made?" asked Judge Advocate Lemly.
81 do not know" was the reply
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