Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-27
WILL CARE FOR BODIES
Remains of Victims to Be Taken to
immigration Office
BY Associated Press.


VICTORIA. B. c.. Jan. 26.-Arrange-
ments are being made for the recep-
tion of the bodies of any victims of the
Valencia disaster brought here, a space
In the freight Sheds at the ocean dock
having been prepared as a morgue.
r. G. Milne. immigration officer, viii
take charge of the bodies. All recov-
cred will be brought to Victoria and
turned over to the immigration office.
as they come within the provisions of
the immigration act similarly as
man dying on board vessel en- route
to port. After any personal effects
found on the victims are collected and
turned over to the customs department
to be held for relatives and identified
tion carried out If possible, the bodies
will be turned over to the agents of
the Pacific Coast Steamship company,
which will be held responsible for their
disposition.
r. W. Silsley and w. L. Guy Of
Seattle, the former who lost son and
the latter a sister and daughter, are
waiting here, hoping the bodies of their
loved ones will be recovered.
Coroner Deehart is also aboard the
steamer Salvor and two land parties,
one by the cable station staff, the
other by Lineman Logan and Light
keeper Daykin of Cloo-Ose and Carn-
amah, have been organized to search
for bodies. The Salvor is expected to
come to Victoria tomorrow, bringing
all that have been recovered till then
and the date of a coroners inquest
will not be decided upon until the ar
rival of the coroner.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Cape Beale says D. Logan tele-
graphs from the scene of the wreck
the following description Of the bodies
of five men recovered by him. The
first body had gold watch and chain,
a purse containing 500 in gold. twenty
one dollars in notes and brass check
number 4105. 1t was the corpse of a
man about five feet eight inches high
with dark hair. The second body had
a pocketbook with 1910, small buckle
ring on the right hand, a plain one on
the left marked "P. p" about 20
years old: he was five feet eight inches
tall The third body was nude and
that of very large man with mug
get ring on the right hand. The first
finger on the left hand was gone at
the first joint. He had a small dark
mustache and was evidently for
eigner
Body of Riverside Man
The fourth had a tax receipt marked
"Gus Erickson, Riverside, Cal" The
name of c.. Erickson appeared in the
list of second-class passengers of the
steamer. There was $40 in gold and
$50 in bills and some keys in his pock-
etbook. The fifth body was that of
o. w. Inglehorne, a second-class pas
senger, given in the passenger list as
James Inglehorne. He belonged at
Ferndale, Wash. He had a check show
ing he had room No. 40 on the steamer
There was so cents I'm his pockets.
Systematic patrols are being organ
ized in Barkley sound and parties Of
Indians sent to the different islands in
the hope of finding other survivors of
the Valencia disaster. Since the dis
covery of the survivors of the second
life raft on Turret island the fishing
launch Shamrock has been cruising
among the islands near the entrance
to the sound, which are in the way Of
the current setting from the scene of
the disaster, and the settlers on Ucue-
let peninsula near where the Pass Of
Melfort was lost are securing the beach
also. Up to this morning the search for
the missing waiter, Frank, who was
lost In the bush of Turret island after
landing from the raft with three sur
vivors now at Toquart fishing station
has been unsuccessful Indians are
continuing the search. The Wrecking
steamer Salvor left for Toquart this
morning and will take the survivors
on board so that the surgeon on the
wrecker can attend to them. Unfortu-
nately DR.. Mclean of Ucluelet was
absent from that village. 1T is ex-
pected that the greater number Of
bodies will be found ON the islands of
Barkley sound, as the tide and current
will carry them to the westward from
the scene of the wreck, now breaking
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