Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-26
VESSELS SEEK
STRAY SURVIVORS
CRUISING ABOUT, HOPING TO
SAVE LIVES
Wrecked Valencia Lies Submerged
and Only a Portion Of Mast
Is Visible Above the
Water
BY Assoola ted Press.

DS fASoptldAth 4 io6Ss
VICTORIA, b. c., Jan. 25.-The |
wrecked steamer Valencia now lies
submerged and broken and but a por-
ton of mast stands above water and |
the fleet of steamers and tugs have
today been turning their attention to
patrolling the vicinity in the hope of
finding boats, RATS or wreckage still
anoat with survivors, though the
chances are small.
Ashore several parties have been
toiling over most arduous trails some
carrying succor to those who were
washed ashore, others securing the
rugged rocks of the shore line seeking
for survivors who may have reached
shore and be lying foodless and help
less and others are engaged i'm the
melancholy duty OF recovering bodies.
Of the total company of 154, but 80
have been definitely accounted for and
three men believed to be other sur
vivors were seen on shore from the
whaling vessel Orion, near the wreck,
huddling about IL fire. Six survivors
have been taken on board the Salvor,
Nine, most of them SO badly cut up
and bruised. without boots and so over
| come that they cannot stand, much less
walk, are still camped at Darling
creek, a telegraph hut and 10 Others
were picked up by the City of Topeka.
With the three seen from the orion d
mile and half from the wreck, added,
| the survivors total 49, leaving "a death
| list of ll9 persons.
! Not u woman or child Is among the
saved. Scant hope is entertained by
those on board the patrolling steamers
that any others will be recovered, for
| the doctors on rescuing tugs say the
limit OF human endurance will have
been passed before this time The fleet
of steamers engaged in patrolling were
seen this morning in the vicinity of
| Darling river. The steamer Salvor,
which left Bamfield creek this morn
| ing after sending part of her crew
over the land trails 10 seek survivors
and the whaling steamer Orion Ga
| vessel better equipped than any in this
neighborhood to throw lines to a wreck,
| being equipped with a harpoon gum,
the steamer Queen which stopped at
| the scene EN- route to San Francisco,
| the tug Lorne, sent from Victoria last
| night with Il party OF bluejackets and
| a lifeboat on board, We're all there
and, as far as could be learned from
| correspondents at various points, none
had succeeded in finding other sur
| vivors. The steamer Salvor made an
| tIlOll W Stl OIlC VI utl
| the surf near Darling creek this morn
ing to land supplies for the men at
| Darling telegraph hut, but the surf
| ran too high; it seemed impossible to
| get a boat through 1t. The boat was
forced to return.
Vessel Entirely Destroyed
A. dispatch from Cape Beale says that
Lightkeeper Patterson has returned
from the wreck over the trail, and re-
ports that the steamer Valencia is no
more. Pieces of the steamer and her
cargo were scattered along the beach
when he left. The first thing seen by
the party from Cape Beale on their
arrival this morning was a trunk, evil
IDENTIFY that of a foreigner named Frank
| Novak, as papers and clothing wereI
marked with that name.
Then a nude body was seen in the
surf, but before it could be reached
the undertow took it out and it sank
in deep water.
Two bodies We're recovered from the
wreck. but neither could be identified.
| The beaches near where the steamer
went ashore are covered with broken
cases of canned fruit, butter, lemons
oranges and pineapples.
| Three tugs and the steamer City of
| Topeka passed Carmanah Point, sixty
miles from Victoria, at 4 p. m, bound
homeward from the wreck. the Topeka
with twenty-three survivors on board.
With the failure Of the Salvor to land
supplies, the steam whaler Orion soon
afterwards returned to Bamfeld to
notify those there that aid must be
sent by land. The nine men were on
the side OF the Darling river nearest
the wreck, and Messrs. Richmond,
| McWha and Mousely. cable operators,
who went. taking supplies, rope and
Ifaln
scene of the wreck, were unable to-
cross the swollen creek. Darling creek
is now three times its normal depth and
a swift current runs toward a fall near
| the mouth. But one of the survivors
had managed to cross. +. Il. Bunker,
assistant school superintendent of Seat
| tie. passenger. who escaped from the
wreck after seeing his wife and two
daughters drown alongside the steamer
by the swamping of the boat. swan
across the swift creek A man of Won
derful energy, he placed a rope about
himself before he started and made
the attempt. He succeeded. though he
was almost carried down to the fall.
Others Make Crossing
Other attempts were made to cross at
| low water, and the party succeeded,
working its way to the wreck, accom-
panied by the survivors, who We're able
to go. From Bunker 1t was learned
that the nine men had escaped. They
We're in Nos. 2 and boats and were
but percentage of the crews of these
boats who were washed ashore after
the boats had been oapsized in the
breakers outside the heavy surf rolling
on the day of the disaster. In boat
No. 2. when ii started from the ship,
were 10 in all, and of these Were
drowned. All had life preservers on
Boat No. had left the steamer with
very few passengers, not more than 81
or in all, and Mr., Bunker and ID. f.
Richley, fireman, were all that made
the land, after being thrown into the
breakers.
The people on board had not taken
to the rigging when the boats left. ItI