Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-26
SURVIVORS OF
THE VALENCIA.
Steamer City Of Topeka Arrives
In Seattle With Twenty
Six.
NO PERSONAL EFFECTS SAVED
We're Taken TO Hotel and Well Pro-
yided for---Work Of the Lone
And the Salyor.

Seattle, Wash, Jan, s6--The steamer
City OF Topeka, sent TO the rescue OF
the persons on board the Valencia.
which struck on u reef near Cape Beale
and was pounded to pieees--more than
six score OF lives being lost--arrived In
Seattle OF $3.50 o'clock this morning VITA
% survivors aboard.
A majority Of these remained on
board the steamer until the offices OF
the Pacific Coast steamship company
were opened this morning. They were
then taken TO a hotel and provided for,
Not man who was saved brought am
OF his personal effects off the wreck
with the exception of the clothing ne
wore and what few articles were In his
pockets.
During Wednesday night the City OF
Topeka lay inside the straits and early
Thursday morning ran westward along
the Vancouver shore toward the scene
of the wreck The weather was clear
and everything could be seen on the
Washington and Vancouver shores.
When of Carmanah light fog and rain
set in around the ship and the shore
line, half mile away, was blotted out.
AT about 10 o'clock the tug Lorne
was sighted near the place where the
Valencia struck. She reported having
cruised five miles to the westward ana
had found no sign OF the wreck.
Joe Cigolas, the hero of the wreck
who tried to swim to shore with q life
line ana was all but drowned, volun-
teered TO show the Lorne's life sayinS
crew that was going ashore in q sma.'
boat where the Valencia lay, and he
was transferred from the Topeka TO the
q lt al n -
two miles, but the lifeboat could NOT
land near the wreck.
The Salvor was next sighted by the
Topeka, lying farther up the coast to
The westward, dying signals. The To-
peka ran alongside and capt. Troup, OF
the Salvor, reported that he had on
board Boatswain Tim Mccarthy and
the five men who landed at Cape Beale
from the Valencia and reported the
wreck. lie also reported having seen
two men on shore who had rugged up a
semaphore. The Salvor had not been
able to make landing,
A small tug was sighted In the
breakers where the wreck was reported
to be. The waves appeared TO be
sweeping all over her and when the tug
first sighted Il was mistaken for the
wreck.
At 1880 o'clock this tug came along
side the Topeka and proved to be the
Orion. whalar OF Victoria, She re-
ported the wreck all broken up. MOTH
ing standing but the stump OF the
malnmast; had seen no persons on
shore and no bodies In the wreckage.
II was impossible to make landing.
During the afternoon the Topeka
made an effort TO send provisions
ashore through the surf The r.orne
was to take them near the shore and
cast them adrift hut found It impos-
slble to get close enough to the line OF
breakers,
Just at sunset the Topeka started on
her return trip TO Seattle via Port
Townsend. As the vessel steamed up
the straits past the place whore the
Valencia met her fate, long lines OF
broken spars and other wreckage float.
ei PAST in the ebb tide toward the sea.
The steamer proceeded slowly through
these mute reminders Of the awful
fate that had overtaken 100 lives. and
on TO Seattle.