The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-25
Rescue Ship Picked Up Sur
vIvors Of Valencia Wreck.
MEN IN A PITIABLE CONDITION
Half Frozen and Almost Unconscious Most
Of Those Who Remained on Wreck
WASHED OF BY Seas


Post Intelligencer wires from Port Angles
at $3.50 a. m that the rescue ship city %
Topeka picked up life raft at l o'clock
yesterday afternoon six miles off cape
Beale with 10 survivors Of the Valencia
on board.
The men were I'm a pitlabe condition
and almost dead from exposure. The res
cued are:
c. ID Harden. passenger.
T. Doherty fireman
M Tarpera suartermaster.
p OBricn. walter.
w. Raymond messman.
w. u. Johnson, coal passer.
J. c. Egals. fireman
c. Fleeme. baker.
Frank T.ehn. first freight clerk
Joseph McCaffrcy, passenger.
j. l.. Welch, walter
A. Hawkins. passenger.
T. Peterson, second OFFICER.
J. Poddent waiter.
John Johnson third cook.
C.L. Allison. passenger Gom St Paul.
John Cigodas, freman.
Thomas Garrick first assistant engi-
neer
g. Willis. passenger.
T. Primer. fireman.
IN PTTIABLE CONDITION.
The condition Of the survivors wae pitt
able. The raft was sighted about 2
o'clock, but owing 10 the thick weather,
81 WAS supposed to be nothing but log
At last, by the aid OF powerful glass.
ats true nature was determined.
A terrible water was running, One min
-aita-the raft would be poised on to of
wave and the next IL would be lost from
view I'm the valley formed by the noun
S.t, hraa lar
the men battled bravely with pair OF
oars TO reach the City OF Topeka. which
owing 10 the dangerous coast, could not
run I'm any closer.
Within half mile from the raft. a boat
was lowered from the Topeka In charge
OF Second Mate Burke. who with much
difficulty succeeded in making fast line
10 the raft.
The spectators on the Topeka watched
the struggling Of the gallant seamen
breathlessly. one minute they were high
in the air and the next lost to sight. At
last they succeeded In bringing the raft
20 the side OF the steamer. The sight OF
the poor creatures on the raft brought
tears TO the eyes OF the sailors on the
vessel.
CLOSELY PACKED TOGETHER
In the stern OF the raft sat an old man
with snow white hair and palnd features,
Three others were lying In senseless
heap I'm the rear washed by every swell
and retained solely by the bodies OF the
other men who were closely packed.
Time and time again great seas swept
over them. sending a shudder through the
onlookers who feared to see them swept
away.
The work of rescuing them was dan
geroue. The men were too exhausted TO
even tie n rome about Themselves.
For time II looked as though the old
man with gray hair was gone when the
raft gave a sudden lurch. but the prompt
work OF Mate Burk and his men finally
got him on deck This man was no sooner
safe when another fainting form was
quick work on the part OF the boats crew.
The next man 10 be swept from the raft
managed to grasp n line and cling to Il
until he was hoisted half way up tho
ships side when his strength gave out
boat
SWEPT AWAY BY SEAS
The raft put out from the wreck yester-
day morning on sighting the steamer
Queen and attempted To reach her but be-
fore they could get within signaling dis
tance. the vessel put about and headed To
the strait
When the Topeka hove in sight the raft
was once more manned and again put
forth. The survivors told terrible tales
az the wreck OF the vessel When they
left tho ship there were about ninety peo-
pie on board, most OF them clinging 10
the rigging Men. women and children