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be statement that h- would never
save the wreck alive
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'srson. loft the wreck On tho So" life
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Captain Gibbs. who went from r-at.
10 60 ih- wreck on the steamer Ciiy ~
topeka. said de survivors told him
hat the best Of order was preserved on
'oard
when the time came for tile life
oats to leave the Valencia sid cap
ain Gibbs. the officer. ordered all the
Women to take TO the RATS. The sur
ivors say that IN spite 81 the fact
hat the Valencia was beginning 10
rrsk mp the women refused to 90 on
he life RATS OF IN the lifeboats. stat.
" that they would take their chances
'ith the ship rather than leave.
The officers did all they could to inn
ress upon their minds The fact that
here was little chance for help after
he last boats had gone
A survivor says that men, women
nd children. singing Nearer, My God.
/, Thee" shlvered and chung together
d the hurricane deck Of the Valencia
hen the steamer Queen hove into
ght. The women on the III fated yes
II took of their underskirts and burn
| them as signals to attract passing G
nssels, but all In vain.
The whaling steamer Orion reports
iving seen three men on shore around
fire 1t was thought that these men l
ere survivors as yet unaccounted for.
he Valencia lay submerged, with on
a portion Of a mast sticking out Of
p water. r.
A statement given out here says that
formation had been received from
G wreck that a life raft and a life
,at, vet unaccounted for had got ! 'e
way safely from the Valencia. On u
g raft were eight women, it Is stated, p
lille no one knows how many were in a
Q lifeboat. lie
Of the 1874 persons on board the N
Gamer Valencia only thirty.five have 81
Us far been saved The dead num- n,
r 119, the greatest loss of life in the %
rth Pacific since the Pacific WAS lost