The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01
11S LIVES LOST !
IN SH|PWRECk
STEAMERS ARE UNABLE TO AP-
PRoAcH WRECK OWING
TO HEAVY SEA.
M|NNESOTAN TELLS OF WRECK
ALLISON OF ST. PAUL AMONG THE
THIRTY.sEvEN SURVIVORS
OF DISASTER.

people or board the steamer Valencia
when she struck near Klanaway rock,
five miles from Cape Beale, at 11:45
o'clock on Monday night and met dis
aSter, but fifteen were safe. Seven
were passengers and eight were men,
bers of the crew The dead number
139, the greatest loss of life in the
North Pacific since the Pacific was
lost in 1875. The Valencia, in whose
rigging about thirty people were
clinging, frantically waving for as
sistance which could not be given
when the steamer Queen left the
scene at 1870 a. m, broke up about
5 o'clock yesterday,
Victoria, B. c., Jan. 26.-The wreck
ed steamer Valencia now lies sub
merged and broken, but a portion of
one mast standing above water, and
the fleet of steamers and tugs have
been turning their attention to pa
trolling the vicinity in the hope of find
ing boats, RATS or wreckage still afioat
with survivors, though chances are
small.
OF the total company of 154, but 33
have been definitely accounted for,
and three men, believed to be other
survivors,, were seen on the shore by
the whaling vessel Orion near the
wreck, huddled about a fire. Six sur
vivors have been taken on the Salvor;
r;,, ,,oc+ ~ +l,o,, ,D Iol1,, out ~, on1
bruised, without boots and so over
come that they cannot stand, much
less walk, are still camped at Darling
Creek, a telegraph hut, and eighteen
others were picked up from a ralt by
the City of Topeka. With the three
men seen from the Orion a mile and
a half from the wreck, added, the
Survivors Total Thirty-six,
leaving a death list of 11S persons.
Not a woman or child is among the
saved.
Seattle, Wash, Jan. 27.-The steam
er City of Topeka arrived here yester-
day morning with twenty-three of the
survivors of the Inflated Valencia, and
the narrowing tales told of the wreck
are heart-rending. Among the saved
are G. l.. Allison of St. Paul, who, with
Fred Erickson, also of st. Paul, was
touring the coast. They were en- route
to Seattle to spend a week. Both
men were among the last to leave
the vessel and took passage on a life
raft.
Erickson was washed off and
drowned, while Allison chung to the
frail raft when picked up by the To-
peka when almost ready to lose his
hold and roll into the boiling sea. His
story is as follows:
81 don't know which was the worst
experience, hat on the ship or that
on the raft. Both were terrible. One
of the saddest things to me was the
losing of my comrade, Erickson. We
had been together many years and
both lived in st. Paul. Erickson and |
were taking a trip up the coast for
pleasure. We were both to go on the
raft and he was with me when ! got
Oh poolu' ilC lC "Cll W j w uOI
know. After we got through the
breakers | looked around and he was
not with me. Whether he remained
on the ship or was washed off the raft
I cannot say. The scenes witnessed
on the vessel were terrible"
Victoria, B. c., Jan. 30.-The body
of Fred Erickson of Oelwein, Iowa,
has been found a mile east of Cape
Beale. His purse contained $4,000.
He had an Identification card in his
pocket. He was the travelling COM
panion of Cornelius Allison Of St.
Paul, who was saved.
Lineman Logan and party, who
have been working at the scene of the
wreck since the destruction of the
Valencia, report the recovery of three
more bodies, those of a middle aged
man, a young man and a woman about
twenty years Of age.