Show COLU COLUMBIA DISASTER INQUIRY REVEALS z DEATH ORDE ORDERS S SAN SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO July 30 The The ic- ic tt f of the companies which by V it ironclad n lad schedules compel their masters maste s sr r I of ships to go at a speed that their own own consciences tell them is unsafe was t. t S 'S the fh feature of the tho Columbia wreck inkY in- in kY v n re Captain Bermingham y toda today i f Second Offic Officer r 8 testimony established es- es es es- a. a j i more inore clearly than ha had been done before the fact that captains are area c compelled to run their ships ships at t full fuU r f speed along a dangerous coast coast- in m foggy weather and in a course navigated by many vessels Is Ys it the usual practice on this coast to go o full speed asked Captain Bermin ham am a.m. The The captain always slowed up when r I he he beard bearda a steamer ahead was as the answer answer A question as to whether it was necEssary necessary necessary essary to go at full fun speed in order to tomake tomake tomake make the schedule le elicited the statement statement statement state state- ment that there was a certain time allowed allowed allowed al al- al- al lowed for the round trip of coast steamships steamships steamships steam- steam ships and that it was was necessary to arrive arrive arrive ar ar- rive at a a. certain hour to get in on the time tim and avoid delay S I. I IJ t J I Did Did the ship never slow up slow up unless p l' S there was a steamer ahead tb t 1 I I I I- cant can't recollect that we ever did It might be once in a great while perI perhaps per- per I F haps i especially in very bad weather weather t I said Bald Agerup Attorney George A A. A Knight counsel for the company then took the witness and after getting the statement from Agerup that he had been with Captain Doran seven years asked him Did Did you ever hear Bear hear the captain say V d that you t push the steamer ahead l i i pt t any cost No Wo 14 sir sir sai said saia the witness l i Did you you rou ever hear him say that hep he p must make make- a certain time timet 1 No sir V Although Knight succeeded in is establishing lishing fishing the fact that the captain never f gave agave the order mentioned Knight made no no effort to shake shako the testimony that i r t to dangerous runs run s were made to keep the i x j vessel Tessel on its its schedule and that the tho k 5 moral suasion of the company was the I Ik L treason for them I |