The Portland daily press., 1882-11-18
THE VAUDEVILLE.
Full Particulars of Her Loss.

We get the following additional particulars
of the loss of the bark "Mallevile' from
Messrs. Ryan & Kelsey, which information
has been furnished them by the q. s. Con-
sui at Victoria, B. O., under date of October
31st
The consul writes that the west coast OF
Vancouver's Island is one to be more dreaded
than any one on the Pacific coast, scarcely a
8 ascn passes without some one or more ves-
sci being wrecked on its shore, He has in his
possession number of letters for Captain and
Mrs. Harlow.
The Malleville left Liverpool with general
cargo for St John, N. B., and after discharg-
ing proceeded thence with lumber to Austral-
Ia. She sailed from Sydney, n. s. W., on the
10Th of May last for Shanghai where she ar
rived on the 18th of July. On the 18th of
August last she left in ballast for this port,
seeking. and as already stated was wrecked
on the 10th of October. She broke up very
rapidly and no hope is entertained that any
body who was on board survived. The crew
numbered about eighteen and they, together
with Captain Harlow, his wife and two boys,
and the officers of the Inflated bark have un-
doubleday met with watery grave-not
soul remaining TO tell how the wreck occurred,
or what sufferings and privatioDs were ex-
perlenced. Five bodies were washed ashore
and found on the beach. One was that of
lady tired in a silk dress and well clad in
every respect. She was doubtless the wife of
Capt. Harlow. The olher four bodies we're
those OF seamen. The mortal remains were
conveyed TO Hesquiat where they were sc-
corded Christian burial under the direction
of the Rev. Father Brabant, the Roman Cath
Ollie priest at that station. Among the arti-
cles washed ashore from the wreck were three
pictures, evidently painted in China, and sew
eral letters, ore dated 1877 and addressed TO
Capt. Harlow, another dated Helsvig, Decem-
Der Goth, 1881, and signed Hans Larsen. The
letter is written in the Danish language and is
possibly from the father of one of the crew.
The pictures are the portraits of two females
and young officer, apparently belonging to
the German army. One of the females repre-
sented is young and of pleasing countanance,
with light brown eyes and soft, blue eyes,
This Is probably the portrait of the wife of the
captain. The other female portrait represents
. lady, probably about 40 years of age, with
full, round features, substantial bust and dark
hair brushed back from the forehead on either
side In the painting of the lady supposed to
be the wife of the captain the hair is frizzed on
the left side and falls over the forehead The
locality in which the vessel was wrecked is al
moststhe same as that where the John Bright
WAS cast away and not far from the scene OF
the loss of the bark Edwin, Capt. Hughes.
The coast is rock bound, a vessel going ashore
there during gale would have very remote
chance of being saved or withStandiDg for any
length OF time the swell of the Pacific ocean
which rolls in at times with great violence.
No signs OF life from the wreck has been seen
since the bark struck and no further details
will probably ever be ascertained relative to
the sad occurrence. The portraits, and the
photographs and letters washed ashore are in
the possession of the United States consul, but
they can only form the basis for conjecture as
to the bodies found on the beach.