Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-28

Inc Cofonist furnishes Us the account
following of the vesse, lost on the ves,
coast of Vancouver Island:
The sad news Of wreck on the West
Soast brought TO this city on SATURDAY.
last BY the brothers Seirault, FROM Bar
clay Sound, and published IN these col
unns on Sunday morning, Is now fully
authenticated by the return of II. IL. S.
hinRnsher Yesterday morning from the
scene OF the disaster. On Capt. Thorn
IONS arrival at Hesquiat harbor and
communicating with Father Brabant.
ne asoertained tina. Week had occur
req and that the illfatsd vessel was the
American bark
NALLEvILLE,
OF Freeport, Maine. Captain E. F. Har.
low. She struck the fatal reef. some
three or four miles Of shore, at 9:l5 on
the evening of Tuesday, the 10th inst.
and It seems went 70 pieces almost i'm
mediately, al ships clock, which was
washed ashore, stopped at 10p.m. As
there Is not the slightest hope that a
living soul belonging to the vessel is left
alive, this narrowing tale of shipwreck.
suffering and death will never be told.
At least
TWENTY LIVES
Must have been lost, as she was bark
OF w tons register; and among those
were the captains young wife and two
II not three children, the eldest q bright
boy OF nine years, and one or two other
children of more tender age, The
bodies OF four men, one Chinamau or
a hop nh
handsome and richly dressed lady, the
captains wife undoubtedly, were cast
ashore. These were duly cared for. and
the last sad rites bestowed upon them
by the kind-heartod father aud his In
dian flock. Some
CHILDREN's CLOTHES
Were recovered, which sets the question
at rest az TO the captains family being
on board. A quantity of wreckage was
thrown ashore with some of the ships
stores; but of course, she being in bal.
last, there was no cargo to recover. The
Kingfsher people, however. saw no YES
tiRe of the wreck IN or about Hesquiat
horb0e or Sound.
SAD MEMESToks
OF the disaster were cast ashore and re-
executed portraits, evidently enlarged
in China quite recently from photo
graphs. One Of those is the likeness of
a young, handsOme-loOkiAg woman, the
original of the lady whom Father Bra
bant buried, supposed to have been the
captains wife. The other female Dor
trait was that of a more elderly person,
probably Mrs. Harlow's mother; and
the remaining one, Judging from the
family likeness, is that of q brother in
the uniform of a German military Of
ticer. Several photographs of single
individuals and groups were also cast
up by the surf and two letters address
sed to Captain Harlow, one in German
and the other, only q fragment, how
ever. in English. A wedding and other
gold rings were taken from the CORPSE
of the lady before interment. The ships
log book was also recovered, and is in
the possession of Captain Peter Francis,
Of Barclay Sound.
THE WRECK
Occurred ON the night of the 10th inst,
which will be remembered as one of in
tense darkness and very stormy. The
efforts that were made to keep off that
coast, or the length of time
that death was staring the Inflated crew
in the face may never be known. Per
haps the captain was trying for hours to
make Hesquiat harbOr close by, where
good and sheltered anchorage may be
found. The ledge on which the bark
struck extends for considerable dis
tanoe of shore beyond Estevan Point,
the western entrance to Hesquiat har-
Dor. This point is 81 miles northwest
of Flattery and about 60 from Cape
Beale light.
DESCRIPTION OF THE LOST VESSEL.
The Malleville was wooden vessel of
94 tons register, with crew of Is men
all told, and was Is years old, having
been built at Freeport, Maine, in 1866.
She was owned by Mr.. E. J. Harlow, of
that city, and commanded by his son
Captain E. F. Harlow. She left Liver
pool with general cargo for st. Johns,
Dor for Sydney, New South Wales, where
she arrived ON the 18th of May last,
reached Shanghai on the 25th of July
and left that port for Victoria ON the
18th of August. There are more than a
dozen letters in the American Consul's
office for the captain and his wife, be-
sides others for the officers and crew.
Consul Francis telegraphed the particu-
lars Of the wreck to Freeport yesterday,
and he will Immediately forward q full
account to the authorities at Washing
ton, where the prompt action of Cap
tain East, the senior officer on this
naval station, and the energetic carry
ing out Of his instructions by Captain
Of IL. NJ. s. Kingfisher, will
be thoroughly appreciated and acknOw-
lodged.