The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28
WAS THERE LACK
OF PROPER EFFORT
Survivors Claim Many Might
Have Been Saved From
the Valencia.
SHIP STANDING BY COULD
HAVE PICKED THEM UP
Also Charged There Was No
Discipline Among Officers
and Men.

VICTORIA, B. C. Jan. 27.-Au the sur
vivors who reached shore near the scene
or the wreck Of the Valencia have now
oeen cared for. the last party of nine
VINO mad been stalled at the Darling river,
on account of the flooded waters rec cb
ing tho steamer Salvor at Bamfed creek
iast night. They were I'm a bad condition
In FaInished Condition.
The party was sighted at 31o D. m. on
point OF rock. having taken to the
oeach as the trail was too hard for the
men to negotiate in their fsmished con-
Gition. The Associated Press correspond-
cnt was the first to reach them. He found
r. F. Bunker assistant superintendent of
schools or Seattle. and F. Marshall on the
peach IN a bad condition, the latter hav-
Ing walked the whole way suffering from
sprained ankle and experiencing severe
pain. The remainder OF the party had
taken to the trail
Lost Coat and Shirt.
Bunker had lost his coat and his shirt
and was wearing a blanket with orm
holes cut In H. Marshalrs ankle was i'm
taken to telegraph hut at Pachena and
given food. Soon afterwards, while these
TWO were being cared for. the rescue
party arrived with the other survivors
Al were completely fatigued
Equipped With Shoes.
IHe entiTe party was equipped with
shoes. those who had been without hay
ing been supplied with shoes taken from
the corpses washed ashore Tho suryI-
Vors are loud In their praises OF the res
cue party from the Salyor. The trail Is
lcult. "''
Lack Of Discipline
Mr., Bunker said there was an evident
lack or discipline among the officers and
tnis slhtement has been corroborated by
odner passengers A mess boy cursed an
oilcer 10 his face for not giving proper
orders Mr.. Bunker said boat No. 9 was
sent through the surf with more than
WENT passengers In 1t and only seven
sot ashore after 1t capsIzed.. He got In
the next boat lowered with his wife and
TWO children. This boat was sent out
without officers or seamen
Boy Calls Papa"
The boat capsized and he tried 70 crawl
oiick As he did so the boat righted and
nearly flled He got In and his wife was
Gilnelng en- ing 10 the side of the bont. Tho sirl
was gone and the boy was limp. He tried
to restore the boy to life, and the little
fellow recovered consciousness and began
10 cry and call Papa" His wife said She
could not hold on longer He kissed bor
goodbye. Just then the boat again cap
sized.
Kissed Wife Goodbye.
He told his wife to hold, and took her
win one arm and the child with the
other, but something struck him on the
head and he lost them He was swept I'm
and out three times by the breakers but
nnally managed to clutch the rocks and
mold fast He waited on the rocks. after
clanoering out OF tho reach of the water.
until the morning. and then be climbed
up the bluff and found a trail to n hut.
which he reached. after great hardship
having to swim river to gain the hut.
Sufferings We're Terrible.
In the hut he found somo mouldy beans
and a telephone receiver. During the next
two days the suffering OF himself and
other survivors who had jolned him wos
terrible, but help arrived from the cable
citation at Bamneld, then a party from
Cloo Ose. then those from the salvor
Mr.. Bunker says that in his opinion
there are severel questions that require
answering in connection with the dis
aster as follows;
why were boatloads OF passengers
looded into tho water without crews TO
man or officers to command?
Questions to Be Answered.
why was there no discipline among Of
hcers and men?
Why were the plugs for the bottom of
the boats not made to ct?
why was II impossible for the passen-
gers TO make pins for the rowocks TO
"why were the llfepreservers made of
reeds and not of cork3''
Life Preservers of Reeds.
Mr.. bunker opened ntty or tneSc Ufe-
preservers. which foated onto the rocks
near where he was, and found them all
the same He also asks;
why did six members OF the crew
land near Cape Beale In one of the ships
boats without passengers?
why did the Queen and two tug boats
which stood near the wreck on Wednes-
day leave her TO her fate?"
One hour after they left the wreck he
said. the remains OF the steamer col
lapsed and moro than nifty persons float
ed to sea, with no one to pick them up.
Might Have Saved Many.
S Hancock, chief cook. who was picked
up at Turtle island and taken to Toquart
said he cut the first raft adrft and left
the wreck about noon on Wednesday. The
steamer Queen was then standing by, but
II the steamer had stood by In Its origin
al position, large number might have
been saved. The life raft followed the
Queen. trying desperately TO signal her.
IDENTIFY could not make them out: Then
those on board saw the City OF Topeka,
but could not attract any attention from
that vessel
Twenty Still in Rigging.
Wallis. one of these identified as dead
before tho tug Car ran In toward the
Valencia At the time the Car was
IN IN there aSc SHg He Wss Of the
,pinion that at the cbb Of the tide many
II those on board tho wreck would have
,1en saved II any steamer had been then
ltanding by TO pick them up.
When Hancock left the wreck, Capt.
Johnson. the first. second and fourth OF
iccrs were left on the wreck, The third
,ffcer left the night previous Hancock
tho statement that all the Of
cers were much excited.
Reception for Chicagoans.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan, 27.-The delega-
lon from the Chicago Commercial asso-
"a IN This city WAS given