Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-30

tinctly recollect giving the signal and II
was flying for twenty minutes"
Did the Brooklyn stand in and at
tempt to sink the Spanish fleet in the
channel?"
II started in at first to help the other
vessels and have them help me. felt
if we could stop the Spaniards' battle
ships We could so in and sink them.
never had any idea they would get
away"
Continuing he said when he started
the Brooklyn had gone to within from
mile to mile and half of the mouth
of the harbor and was within range OF
the shore batteries. he thought, for from
twelve to fourteen minutes. The flag
ship had been within range of less
than 1000 yards from the Spanish ships.
when the Spanish ships succeeded in
getting out of the harbor without be-
ing sunk, In accordance with orders
what alternative was there but to chase
them?"
There was no alternative, no other
course was open, but much depended
upon the character of the chase. Wheth-
er 1T was made in a proper way and ef-
fectiye was one thing while poorly
conducted ineffective blockade would
have been another thing"
The admiral said while several vessels
failed to Join in the chase, leaving the
work, after sinking Teresa and Oquendo
to the Brooklyn and Oregon, this was
because they could not follow ut the
pace set by the SpaniardS.
Witness said before the helm OF the
Brooklyn swung hard aport in order to
make the loop, the helm was put alter
nately to port and starboard in order
to meet the movements Of the enemy's
ships.
1T was difficult he said, "at the
time to say whether they meant to go
between the Texas and Brooklyn OF the
other way
You stated in your examination-in-
chief on making the turn you did not
see the starboard side of the Texas?"
Il did say SO absolutely"
Asked whether he had mentioned that
during the battle he had given the sig
nal, follow the flag previous to the
beginning OF the inquiry Schley replied:
II think I've kept my mouth closed on
all these subjects and don't recall speak
ing Of the incident. distinctly recol-
ilect giving the signal and 1t was flying
for twenty minutes Schley said he
never heard of the Texas incident until
six months after the battle. He had been
under the impression until later that the
starboard engine of the Brooklyn backed
TO facilitate the turn. He recollected dis
tinctly that he warned Cook. as the en-
envy approached, that they We're going
to ram him. He was closely questioned
as to the order which went below. stand
by to ram" He said he supposed the
captain had given the order, but was not
certain His attention was next called
to the letter to the senate in which he
said the turn was made to avoid blap-
keting the fire OF his own ships; also to
the statement in his examination-fn-
chief that he had not turned to port be-
cause to do SO would have brought the
ship into dangerous proximity to the en-
emy's vessels and exposed her to possi-
ble torpedo attack or ramming.
Now said Lemly. here appear to be
three reasons why you made the turn.
Why did you make that turn?
"As have already stated there is an
ether and. very much more important
reason. which you have not asked. and
that was that the ship might continue
in action and beat the enemy as we did.
That was the controlling one OF all.
There were several other reasons we
could perhaps conjure up about it"
Ibid you have each of these various
reasons in mind at the time ~
..Probably all of them and others"
At 2:36 Lemly announced that he had
no further questions to ask Schley.
Dewey announced that the court had
some questions to ask and Hanna pro-
ceeded to read them.