Show I 1 DAMAGING EVIDENCE something besides elements responsible for valencia disaster seattle wash feb 13 for the first time since the valencia investigation aga has been in progress testimony was waa introduced today which tended tot toj show that causes other than the ele elc ments were responsible for captain johnsons johnsonb overrunning his course and wrecking tho the steamer which caused the loss of so many lives the evidence came out today when frank F bunker who had been retailed recalled testified to questions asked him by united states district attorney frye regarding anything out of the ordinary ordinal he had bad noticed while watching the men tako take soundings on the night of the tragedy bunker testified that as ho he watched the men hauling in the lead lino line it became tangled with the log line and that several minutes elapsed before tho the log line could be heaved overboard he said that in his opinion tho the ship was then running at full speed he also stated that the ships progress was then kept by one of the officers who stood by with a watch in its his land hand when tho the log had finally been cast over the side bide bunker says the officer called to the quartermaster or whoever it vas standing near to mark down two miles this Is ia the distance I 1 rup supposed posed to have been traveled while I 1 the men were untangling tho the linea of I 1 tho the log and lead bunker also that when the log lino line was thrown over it was still snarled and tangled he said he be did not know whether this affected the registering of the vessels progress or oe not but that the circumstances j struck him as peculiar lie he says he also saw one of the sailors haul in the log take a cap or something off it pour it into a certain part of oe the and then beavo it overboard forgetting to re replace the cap bunker added that tho the sailor who had apparently forgotten to replace the cap again hauled in the log and placed it in proper shape |