The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-07
THE BROOKLYN
LOST NO Time.
Navigator HOdgson Says She
Got Into Action
AS Quickly as Possible at Santi-
ago Battle.
LONELY OUT THERE.
LONELY OUT THERE.
SchIey's Ship Was Engaged
With Three Spaniards
And One of Them the Foremost
in the Flight.

Washington, Oct THE Schley court
of inquiry today entered upon the third
straight week of the investigation of
Admiral Schley's conduct in the Span
ish war. The crowd in attendance was
as large as at any previous time, indi-
eating that the interest in the case is
unabated. 1t had been expected that
the navy department would be able to
complete its presentation of the case
by the close of last week, but when the
court opened today Capt. Lemly'S list
of witnesses still contained almost a
dozen names. Prominent among these
is Captain Chadwick, who was Ad-
miral Simpsons chief of staff and who
was in immediate command of the flag
ship New York during the Santiago
campaign.
The programme for today included in
addition to those recalled for the cor
rection of testimony the names of two
new witnesses and of two who have
hitherto been on the stand. The new
witnesses who were present when the
court convened, with the expectation OF
being called TO the stand during the
day, were Capt w M FOlger, who
commanded the cruiser New Orleans
during the bombardment of the Girls
tObal Colon, on May 81. In which that
vessel participated, and Lieut. M. L.
Bristol, who, as an ensign, was the
watch officer on the battleship Texas
during the Santiago campaign. Lieut.
Commander Dyson also was present
with the understanding that he prob
ably would be recalled during the day
for the purpose of continuing h1f tes-
timony concerning the coal supply of
the flying squadron when it first ar
rived off Santiago, and its capacity un-
der varying conditions of speed.
The days proceedings began with the
recall of Lieut.. Doyle and Commander
Rodgers, for the purpose of correcting
their previous testimony, and when
.ia11 CT<7r11
mander Hodgson, navigator of the
Brooklyn during the Santiago cam
paign, resumed the stand. This was his
third sitting, and when he began to-
days testimony the judge advocate had
not entirely completed his questions.
There were still few of the letters
constituting the correspondence be-
tween the witness and Admiral Schley
to be read, and when they were con-
cluded Captain Lemly and Mr.. Hanna
proceeded with their questions.
When the reading of the Schley-
Hodgson correspondence had been con-
eIuded Captain hemly Lei yo3sl asked d Mr, ahs
collouuy between himself and Commo-
dore Sch1ey had ever been published
entire. Mr.. Hodgson replied in the neg
atiVe saying that the last para gra ph of
his letter of denial had not been print
ed. This paragraph referred to the en-
closure of a newspaper clipping.
Mr.. Rayner began his cross-examina-
the Marblehead had hailed the Brook
lyn when the two vessels passed each
other the Brooklyn was on her way
to Cienfuegos- The witness replied in
the negative. The examination then
turned upon events about Clenfuegos,
and in reply to Mr.. Rayner's inquiry
Mr. Hodgson detailed these at length.
Commander Hodgson said in reply to
these questions that he had seen the
lights the shore at Cienfuegos, which
We're afterward determined to be sig
nails. but he had supposed they were
signals between different branches of
the Spanish forces on shore. He added
that when Capt McCalla arrived with
information as to the meaning of the
signals. he was i'm mediately dispatched
to the shore to communicate with the
insurgents. He said that the progress
of the squadron was impeded between
Cienfuegos and Santiago by the heavy
weather, the smaller vessels, the Vixen
and Eagle were making, especially the
Eagle.
Mr.. Rayner then asked: How far
were you off, during this blockade of
Santiago, from the Moro during the day
and night of May %, 90, 80 and 31?'
In response the witness said:
early in the day time our habitua1
position was about six miles. In the
night, 1 think we steamed up and down
in front of the harbor. a distance Of
about six miles,
He stated that the picket boats, the
Marblehead and the Vixen were inside
the line of the fleet. about midway be-
tween that line and the shore line
The witness then in response to re-
quest from Mr.. Rayner continued his
description of the naval battle of July
from the point where he had dropped
that description at Capt Lemly's re-
quest, while he was on the stand Fri
day"
In this connection, he said: s'The
Brooklyn did all she could. She got into
action just as quick as steam could
carry her there. We commenced firing
as soon as the first gun on the port bow
would bear and we kept the port bat
terry firing until she turned with port
helm through the arc using the aft
guns until we got all the starboard
guns to bear. We got around as quick
ly as we could with port helm until we
alnos para1leled the course of the
leading Spanish vessels, when the helm
was eased and the ship steered course
parallel with Viscaya, which was then
the leading vessel, although the Maria
| Teresa probably was farther to the
westward than the Viscaya. She was
standing at an angle into the shore.
When we got around the smoke was so
| dense nothing could be seen of any
thing in the rear of us The three Span
ish vessels we were then engaged with,
| were the Viscaya, the Colon and the
Oquendo. The Viscaya was about 2. 500
yards on our starboard bow the Colon
probably was a little forward Of the
starboard beam. The Oquendo was
abaft the starboard beam. We contin-
ued in that direction, when / remarked
20 Capt. Cook, that it seemed rather
lonely for us out there
BROOKLYN ALL ALONE.
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