The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-29
LAST SURVIVORS
ARE BROUGHT IN
Sixteen Bodies of Wreck Vic
tins Recovered and Search
Going On.
FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCES
AFTER LEAVING VESSEL
Four on Raft Raying Maniacs
When Supposed Rescue
Ship Sailed Away.


er Salvor returned from the wreck today
with the survivors. and the U. S. s.
Grant Will reach Seattle tonight with
eleven more and three bodies. while the
tug Bnhada, with two fishing dorles is
trying 10 recover tho others washed
ashore near the scene OF the wreck.
which cannot be taken over the dincult
trail. Sixteen bodies had been recovered
up to this evening, Ave being identified.
and search is being continued for others.
Survivors in Hospital.
The Salvor brought Frank Connors. n
waiter; and George Long, fireman. TO
Victoria, and both wcrc Immediately re-
ceived at the Marine hospital, as they
We're suffering severely, being bruised
badly and swollen from exposure Con-
nors was for a tlmc in danger OF losing
drIfted TO TUrret island in Barklcy
sound, with nine others, OF whom four
became mad. one so violent that he had
10 be restrained by his fellows
Four Went Mad
Connors. imbued by the hallucination
that he had seen a lighthouse. wandered
off into the bush where he almost sue
cumbed TO the privations endured before
he was found day later BY an Indian,
lying on a log mutterinG. almost Insane,
and transferred to the steamer Salvor.
Long was nlso on that raft
Had Frightful Experience.
Both mon had frightful experience
after leaving The vessel not the least
shocking OF IL being when they eignaled
madly to the steamer City OF Topeka,
which they took 20 be the Queen, and
sew the steamer sheer away, leaving
them to dritt Mt the mercy of the waves
until they drifted ashore, with four OF
their companions raving maniacs before
death came to them.
Bunker Receives Praise.
+. T. Bunker and the other survivors
who mndc their way over the trail suf-
fcred similar hardships before they were
Grant after being sucCored by the Sal
rors crew. Bunker was loudly praised
by his fellows. he being man of great
Yigor aad bravery When he reached
Pachena he was clad only in his trousers
and had boots tied with piece of string
10 hold them together. Ills shoulders
were covered by n blanket, he having
given his shirt TO a fellow sufferer.
Total Saved Number Thirty-Seven.
From this party the Associated Press
correspondent, who returned by the Sal
Nor, learned that the signals seen on the
shore by the tug Lorne, as result OF
which tho Egeria's blueJackets were sent
10 endcaYor TO make a landing on Thus
day, were not those OF further survivors.
having been made by one OF the party or
nine 1ourncyinS from Darling creek
THIS disposes OF the belief that others
escaped. and the total number Of sur
Nivors Is shown to have been but thirty
er Of ld persons.
Steward and Stewardess Brave.
The survivors who drifted Into Barkley
sound on raft speak highly of the
bravery OF both the steward and the
stewaTdess and their department. The
say when they left the ship the steward
ana steWardesS were engaged constantly
In passing food to all and long after the
crew took TO the rigging the steward and
many OF his walters passed up meat and
sandwiches TO those dashed in the yard
age of the wreck.
Night in the Rigging.
The night OF Tuesday, when the ship
wrecked people were in the rigging was
a terrible one, as a high wind which was
almost responsible for the loss OF the
sealing schooner Casco. which had sailed
from Victoria on Sunday last. was blow
ing. The Cacso put into Bam0eId an
Wednesday morning and Capt Munroe
reported that on Tuesday night the seal
ing schooner was within a few yards Of
bSoiHe bod " wrecked exec or Cape Beale, and # she
been all lost
Storm Was Terrific.
When the sealcrs told OF the storm,
which Capt. Munroe said was one OF the
So}a %I[st =, ne mad experienced, thcse at BAN
neId thought that Eone Of the people In
the rigging of the Valencia would have
survived that night That same day a
telephone message was received from
Llneman Logan, and the land nsTiW
which went by the land trails TO tho
wreck from Cloo-Ose and the lincman
told a tragic tale OF seeing the wreck
break up at noon on Wednesday, carry
Ing away all who had survived the ter
rors of the previous night
Tells Tragic Tale.
Tho three shots heard by those on the
steamer Queen ss she stood by the wreck
tempts made to throw lines ashore. Line
man Logan telcphoned the Associated
nrcss ih, correspondent at Pachena that
lnree lines had been sent shoreward The
first fell short. the eecond reached shore
and was caught by Logan, who was
making 1t fast TO a piece OF rock when
~ ~ proke. The third fell short, striking
the face of the rock
Last Hope Gone.
Those on the rock saw the failure of
the attempt, and when the signals were
made shouts could not be heard above
the roar of tho breakers, though the
wreck was only fifteen yards away. so
the men on the wreck waved their arms,
Indicating that there were no more lines
Inc Inc last hope had gone. and soon after
ward, when the steamer Queen had inst
lsft the scene. the men on the land saw
the end.
Bodies Washed Ashore.
Before long the wreckaee began to
wash on the rocks and there the first
nVc bodies were found Barrels casks
and all manner OF freight was then
washed ashore, and the Nittinat Indians
and those OF Cloo-Ose and Pachena have
can '
The Nitinat Indians purpose to hold
potlatch In few dayS with the goods
they have secured. The parties al the
scene arc preventing any lootlne, how
z ever. The Government agents are argan-
izing posses OF Indians TO search for
bodies. especially In the Barkley sound
direction and near Uclucet. where IL IS
expected the majority Of the bodies viii
be recovered, tho lido sets in that
direction.
Hope to Recover Many.
This afternoon a dispatch from the As
4 sociated Press correspondent at Ucuclet
reported the finding OF body on Erlct-
etts island, west OF Turret island in
the broken group, and later tho CORE
spondent at Cape Bcalc told of another
body. that of Fred Erickson OF Iowa
having been located near Cape Bcalc
Government to Hold Inquiry.
The Dominion Government has decided
to hold IN investigation into the wreck