The age-herald., 1902-02-20

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 was not much farther to the eastward of me than the Brooklyn was to the west ward. After the Viseaya had grounded the New York overlook me and signalled me to return to the mouth of the harbor to prevent any other Spanish ship from coming out and attacking the transports. I received no signals of any kind from the Brooklyn. All we had to do was to close in on the Spanish squadron as 1t came out of the harbor in obedience to the orders of Admiral Sampson and then, when the severest fighting was over and the Spanish ships were trying to escape to the west to folow-and of course. there was no signal necessary to tell us to follow a fleeing enemy.
 "The New York had left the blockading line flying the signal disregard the movements of the commander-in-chief," signal frequently made and well un- derstood by the entire fleet It did not require answer from the command. No signal was made from the second in com mand to assume command of the fleet, which was usually done by the Command er-in-chief before reaching the limit of signal distance when he proposed for any reason temporarily to relinquish his conn mand to the next ranking officer"
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 The following is Admiral Taylor's state ment:
 "At the beginning of the fight the New York was about as far to the eastward of me as the Brooklyn was to the west ward The only signal received from the New York was at the very close of the fight, when she signalled to me to re- turn and guard the mouth of the harbor so that nothing should come out to attack nod latrr. .,1 ever of the Brooklyn. and should not have needed any if one had been made, as considered Admiral Sampson in com mand. From her position the Indiana took full part in the actual fight as the Spanish Ships came out of the harpor. When they ran to the westward the Indiana fell be- hind, but continued firing at them and at the torpedo boats until all but the Colon was sunk beached. 1 saw the Brooklyn turn and run out seaward. seemingly over a mile about the time the rear of the Spanish ships turned to the west. If instead of making the loop the Brooklyn had stood straight in towards the Spaniards, as the other American ships did. 1t seemed to me that the fight would have been settled then without need of the long chase"
 The following is Commander Vain wright's statement:
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 At the outset of the fight the New York was not much farther away from me in one direction than the Brooklyn was in the other and was in plain sight. A signal from Admiral Taylor in connec- tion with my moving forward to attack the torpedo boats was the only signal l received. I made one to the New York just before the last torpedo boat sunk The New York at that time was coming up under the fire of the batteries and herself fired couple of shots at the torepdo boat Of course Admiral Samp- son was present and In com mand. I re- ceived no signals from the Brooklyn and would not have noticed her at all had 1t not been for the fact that when the other vessels closed in she made what has been since called ''the loop" that my attention was attracted by not seeing the Texas because she stopped and by not seeing the Brooklyn because she went to seaward away from the Spanish vessels. In other words, the left or westward part of our line was refused. and this attracted my attention because it seemed to me from where was that this permit ed the Spanish vessels to try to escape to the westward"
 Survey of Damages.
 The survey of the damages of the four Spanish war vessels shows that in addi-
 
 pounder and one pounder guns of the American feet they were struck forty three times by the larger guns of four inch calibre and over. The Colon which came out inside the others and did com partively little fighting. received but three Of these hits The other three ships which bore the brunt of the action received 40 among them. Of these forty. eleven ac- cording to the report of the board which examined into them, were by four-inch guns, ten by fve-inch guns. four by either four or five-inch (the board could not de- termine which) while one was either a five or six-inch. twelve were by eight inch, and two by 12-inch guns. All of our big ships except the Texas had eight-inch guns. Only the Texas and Iowa had 12- inch guns. The Oregon and Indiana had 13-inch guns and the Texas had six-inch guns.
 The only four-inch guns were on the Iowa, the only ive-inch guns on the Brooklyn. Therefore on the three Span .ish ships which did the bulk of the fight Ing out of the forty large-caliber shot that struck, eleven certainly came from the Iowa, ten certainly came from the Brooklyn four from either the Iowa or the Brooklyn and two from either the Iowa or the Texas. Of the three which struck the Colon, two were pinch and must have come from the Brcokiyn: one was either a 5-inch or a 6-inch It must be remembered that the or 5-inch guns were the only quick-frers above the G. pounder in our fleet. and that they were not only much more rapidly but much more surely handled than were the larger and slower-firng guns. The damage and loss to the American vessels were trivial The only loss suffered was aboard the Brooklyn. where one man was killed and one wounded. In damage the cost of the repairs shows that the Iowa suffered most and the Oregon least The American ships engaged possessed more than two fold material superiority over the Span T>Io AT .