Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01
1883 Perish
IN PACIFIC
Passengers and Crew Of Val
encia Meet an Awful
Fate.
ZIG SHIP GOES ON ROCKS
Few Survived Hours of Privation to
Death-Rescuers Who Hurried to
the Scene Arrived too Late to be
of Service.

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 24.--With nine.
ty-four passengers and about sixty in
her crew, the steamer Valencia went
ashore about ten miles east of Cape
Beale in thick fog about IL o'clock
Monday night. She is in the rocks
against high cliff and is likely to
go to pieces any time. One boats
crew of six men reached Cape Beale
about 2 p. m. yesterday. The sur
yivors say that a great number were
drowned in trying to leave the ship
Nine men got ashore about fifteen
miles from here. Two men are pris'
oners on the face of the cliff and can
not get up or back to the ship. The
sea will probably reach them when
the tide is high. The men report
pathetic scenes. One woman droppeu
her Child into the sea In trying to
hand it to her husband. A little boy
of years is running around the deck
trying to find his mother who is
among the drowned. There are still
about 1926 persons on the ship, with
almost certain death staring them in
the face. The steamer queen left
yesterday at p. m. for the wreck
The meteorological station reports
that gale has been in progress ON
the island coast for the past two
days. Off Vancouver island We
locity OF forty miles an hour was re-
ported. A tremendous sea sweeps
n near Cape Beale in heavy weather.
with heavy breakers.
1t is reported that the whaling
steamer Orion has arrived az the
scene of the Valencia wreck from the
whaling station at Secherl and is try
Ing to save as many lives as possible.
Vivtoria. Jan. 25.--Of the 154 people
on board the steamer Valencia when
she struck near Runaway Rock, five
miles from Cape Beale, at 11:4E
o'clock on Monday night and met dis
aster, but fifteen we're saved Seven
were passengers and eight We're mem
bers of the crew. The dead number
1879, the greatest loss of life in the
North Pacific since the Pacific was
lost In 1875.
The Valencia, in whose rigging
about thirty were clinging frantically
waving for assistance which could moi
be given when the steamer Queen
left the scene at 1880 a. NJ. broke
up about o'clock yesterday, sweeping
to death those few who had survived
these terrible hours of privation,
chilled and numbed to the limit OF
human endurance by clouds Of spray
which swept over them.
The tug Leon which Mayor Morey
sent at IL o'clock last night, after the
sad news was brought by the Queen
of men clinging to the rigging OF the
partially submerged vessel, and the
blue Jackets who went on her by or
der of Captain Parrie of H. M. S
Egeria, with surf boats to endeavor
to reach the wreck, will arrive toe
late, as the sea had claimed all before
the Queen reached Victoria.
Seattle, Wash, Jan. ga specia'
representative of the Post-Intelligenc
er telegraphs from Port Angeles that
the rescue ship City of Topeka picked
up little raft at 10 o'clock Wednes'
day evening, six miles off Cape Beale
with twenty survivors Of the Valencis
on board. The men were in a pitt
able condition, and almost dead from
exposure. There are also flfteer
survivors at Vancouver island ant
nine at the Darling river telegraph
hut
Seattle, Wash, Jan. 27.-The steam
ship Topeka, which arrived at Port
Townsend yesterday morning. brough
no survivors Of the Valencia. save
those already reported. The. tota
saved, according to the figures of the
officials of the Pacific Coast company
is forty, including three men found or
Turret island, and one man believed
to be alive on the island, but who, II
is expected, has been located by In
dams This also includes three re
ported on the beach near Klanewak
The tug Pioneer, returning from the
wreck last night, reported nothing
left of the hull of the Valencia. Sixty
one are now believed to have been
on the wreck of the Valencia wher