Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-01-27
D,cIFcCOAST STEAMER VALENCIA
WRECKED; few ESCAPED.
w.. an Way From San Francisco to
o,,get Sound-During Heavy Fog
Valencia Run on Rock, Making
Great Hole-She Filled Rapidly
md a Heavy Sea Consumed All.

staamer Valencia went ashore ABOUT ~
It's east of Cape Beale in a thick fog
ahont 10 o'clock Monday night. She
i on the rocks against hing cliff and
i likely to go to pieces at any time.
One boats crew of six men reached
cane Beale about 8 p. IN. Tuesday.
The survivors say that great num-
,or we're drowned in trying to leave the
sbip. Some reports say 100 lives are
lost. Nine men got ashore about 10
niles from here. Two men are pris-
,rers on the face of the cliff and can
not get up or back to the ship. The sea
will likely reach them when the tide
is high.
The men report very pathetic scenes.
One woman dropped her child in 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 1876 persons on
the ship, with almost certain death
staring them in the face. The steamer
Oueen has left for the wreck.
Cape Beale is on Vancouver island
at the southern side of the entrance to
Barclay sound.
When the steamer Valencia left San
Francisco at IL a. M, Saturday, the
weather was clear, but since has been
thick, and Captain johnson had conse-
ouently to navis ate by reckoning. The
ocfiers of the steamer thought they
we're near the Umatilla reef lightship,
when the vessel drove in on the Van
couver island coast.
Soundings had been taken, 80 faith
oms having been secured few minutes
before the vessel struck. When she hit
the rocks her engines we're reversed,
and the steamer succeeded in backing
of into deep water. She Immediately
began to fill, so quickly that the engin-
GERS and firemen were driven from the
engine room, and the only chance to
save the life of anyone on board was 10
drive the vessel ashore.
When the six survivors who have ar
rived at Cape Beale left the Valencia
was head on to the sea and was about
80 yards from the high bluff on shore,
with the water over her main deck.
What were left of her passengers, a
large number having been previously
'rowned, were huddled on the saloon
teck.
When the boats We're lowered soon
after the vessel was driven into the
shore she began to fill, and there was
great loss of life. The boats, filled
with women and children, were smash.
ed against the side of the steamer, and
all in them were lost. The lights had
gone out by this time, and the crew
could not see to work. Several boats
and three RATS We're lowered. Only
two of them have been heard form.
There are thought to be about 100
persons still on the wreck, and the
survivors who reached Cape Beale say
at least 80 were drowned alonside the
steamer before they left. The boats
vain and five seamen We're sent to Sc
cure assistance, and are the olny ones
to reach Cape Beale. The steamer
Queen City passed the wreck without
sighting her. The weather was thick
at the time.
Later Report.
VI the 154 persons on board the
steamerValencia when she struck near
hlanaway rock, five miles from Care
beale, but l5 were saved. Seven pass
engers and eight were members of the
crew. The dead number 1879, the grea t.
est loss of life in the north Pacific
since the Pacific" was lost in 1875.
The Valencia, in whose rigging
ABOUT 30 persons were clinging frant-
lcally waving for assistance, which
could not be given when the steam, Ell
queen left the scene at 1880 a. III. =,
DroKe up about p. m. Wednesday,
sweeping to death those few who had
survived these terrible hours of priva-
'ion, chilled and numbed to the limit
VI numaniendurance by clouds of spray
wiilch swept over them. The tug
norne' which Mayor Morley of Vic
.oria sent at / / O'Clock Wednesday after
",e SAD news was brought by the Queen
VI men clinging to the rigging of the
partially submerged vessel and the
O,uelackets who went on her by order
Oaptaln Parry of the H. MS. Egeria
WIN surf boats to endeavor to reach
'ne wreck, will arrive too late, as the
0ea mad claimed all before the Queen
reached Victoria
Inc steamer Queen, which arrived
"O clock Wednesday night from the
n soae OF the wreck of the Valencia, re-
~r's That when the Queen left the
h SiOeK at 11:SO Wednesday morning
Eng Eng relieved by the steamer City of
fpeka, from Seattle, there was still
nm On ~ 70 80 persons clinging to the
tSs stng OF the aftmast, the fore part OF
s,s. steamer being submerged. The
sho-ur lay broadside against the
woa,s by l:SO p. M, when the tide
tha ulu De at its flood, it was expected
srS. sieater partssof the hull would be
SEQ o4.serged. With the heavy southwest
Wiz, WI snen running the afterhouses would
the N' doubt be washed away with
inc sslng, in which the few remain
te.s survivors, were still clinging, fran.
opl. signalling for assistance. The
thai .ope when the Queen left wa