The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-27
Survivors Of
THE VALENCIA
Only Thirty-Seven Of the Passengers
and Crew Of the VaIencia
Reached Port in Safety
SEARCH BEING CONTINUED
RESCUE OF THE MEN OH TIE
LIFE RAFT.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 2Sr-Ths stAazasS
City Of Topeka. sent 10 the -resSzs &C
the persons On board the ValSnos-
which struck on q reef near CAps
Beale and was pounded 70 p4sese-
moro than six score OF lives bedng lost
arrived IN Seattle at $3.50 O'Clock tnlE
morning with twenAy-thEse survived
aboard.
A majority OF these re<na3ned "a
/ board the steamer until ths Offices e
the Pacific Coast Steamship comrs1Vs
were opened this morning. They weeS
then taken to hotel and provided GoE-
/ Not man who was saved bEoz1gssS
/ any Of his personal effects off The
wreck with tbs exception OF tbs c8OEn-
ing he wore and what few eEGsGaz
were in his pockets.
! During Wednesday n4gh4 tbs CSky &C
Topeka lay inside the straits and eases+
Thursday morning ran westward azoxG
/ the Vancouver shore toward the sosEe
Of the wreck. The weather ives clear
/ and everything could be sem ON the
Washington and Vanconver shcgas.
When off Carmanah Light eog snh
rain set in around the ship and tbs
shore line, haf-mne away was blOs-
ted Out
No Sign of the Wreck.
At about 10 O'Clock the tug Lorus
was sighted near the place where the
Valencia struck. She reported having
crulSed five miles to the westward and
had found no sign OF the wreck.
Joe Cigolas, the hero Of the wreck.
who tried TO swim to shore with a life
+ line and was all but drowned. Volun-
teered to show the Lorne's life-saving
crew that was going ashore N a small
boat where the Valencia lay, and he
was transferred from the Topeka 20
/ the tug. The LOrne then ran east
about two miles, but the lifeDoat could
not land near the wreck
The SalvOr was next sighted by the
/ Topeka, lying farther UP the coast to
the westward, flying signals. The To-
peka ran alongside and Captain Troup
Of the Salvor, reported that he had
/ on board BOatsWain Tim Mccarthy
and the five men who landed at Cape
Beals from the Valencia and reported
the wreck. He also reported having
seen two men on shore who had rigged
up a semaphore. The SaIvor had not
been able to make a landing
Small Tug Sighted.
4 small tug was sighted IN the
/ breakers where the wreck was report
ed to be. The waves appeared TO be
sweeping all over her and when the
/ tug was first sighted it was mistaken
| for the wreck.
At 1870 o'clock this tug came alone-
side the Topeka and proved to be the
Orion, a WhaIer OF Victoria. She re-
ported the wreck all broken I'D, moth
ing standing but the stump of the
malnmaSt; had seen no persons on
shore and no bodies in the wreck
age It was impossible TO make q
/ landing.
During the afternoon the Topeka
made an effort to send provisions
ashore through the surf The Lorna
was TO take them near the shore and
cast them adrift but found it limos
/ sible to get close enough to the lSnsl
/ OF breakers.
/ Just at sunset the Topeka started orj
her return trip to Seattle, via Port
! Townsend AS the vessel scanned 10
/ the straits past the place where the
/ Valencia met her faas Long lines og.
/ broken spaTs and other Wreckage doa&-
/ ed past in the ebb tide toward the sea.
/ The steamer proceeded slowly thronans
these mute reminders OF the awful fstal
that had overtaken a hundred nEsz
and on TO Seattle.
Story Of the EnafReer.
When the Valencia went on TIA
rocks. z. f. Carrack, first assszsant
/ engineer, was in the hrerOoun- In DE-
scribing the disaster, he said:
Y felt the ship strike, ana then Strike
again; then came the order, Reverse.
fun speed ahead We lacked fog tive
minutes and crashed onto the rocks
/ The whole port side OF the chin by 80
freroom seemed to give way and the
water rolled in, striking ia Waist-hlgh
/ and throwing US against the boilers.
Just as the ship struck the engines
stopped. The water drove Us out Of the
/ treToom before We could draw our
| fires. I sprang through a doorway INTO
/ the engine room and lifted the levers
Of the safety valves.
we were on slow bell when We
struck. The last sounding that heard
was nftY fathOms at 10 o'clock We
/ struck a few minutes before r.
/ After doing all I could do to prevent
en- explosion Of the boilers, I went on
/ the main deck. We could see nothing
around US but breakers and did not
/ know whether We were on a ledge or
/ the mainland.
Ship Sank Rapidly.
''The ship sank rapidly and about ten
minutes after she struck gave way as
/ if her back had broken ard listed
keSvily. Three waves struck her and
threw her back on a level keel and she
rested in that way until the end, seem
/ ing to be pinned among the rocks.
II was in charge Of boat No. Z, the
| second one landed Besides myself
there were seven men in the boat, i've
/ Of the crew and two passengers. The
/ lines were fcRled and some one tried TO
cut Us away, but only the after nue
parted and the boat plunged forward
| and telescoped alongside the ship.
Every one was thrown out and a
number were crushed to death between
| the boat and the ship. Lines were
| thrown to those h2 the Wa<sr, but Ga
! the darkness we could not sSa them.
was in the waHsr about dfteea min
Utes when caught a line and got my
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