Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-26
ARE RESCUED
FROM A RAFT
Topeka Picks Up Twenty Sur.
yivOrs of the Valencia Cap
tain a Hero.

SEATTLE, Wish, Jan. ga spe-
cial dispatch ftJm Port Angels says
that the rescue Ship City of Topeka has
picked up a life raft six miles off Cape
Beale with Awenty survivors of the
steamer Valencia on board.
The survivors rescued from the raft
were in a bitiable condition. They
were half frozen and practically neon
scious from Nhe exposure. When the
raft was sighted, owing to the thick
weather it Was supposed to be a log.
AT last by THE aid of a powerful glass
Its true nature was determined.
A terrible |sea was running. One
minute the raft was poised on top of
a wave and tAe next it would be lost
from view in the gulley formed by the
mountainous pillows.
The twenty Zen on their frail sup
port battled bravely with a pair of
oars to reach the City of Topeka, which.
owing to the dangerous coast, could
not run closer to them. Within half
a mile from the raft a boat was low
cred from the Topeka, in charge of
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difficulty succeeded in making fast a
line to the raft.
The work of rescuing them was dan
gerous. The men were too exhausted
to tie a o about themselves.
The survivors told terrible tales of
the wreck of the vessel. When they
left the ship there were about sixty
,a,,a,., -, I1,.I ,,1s% 80 tbao, al;~~
ing to the rigging.
Passengers and crew during the
night prior to the departure of the life
RATS from the Valencia, according to
those saved, begged Captain o. NJ.
Johnson, the commander, to place a
life belt about his waist. This he per-
sistently refused to do. In spite Of the
fact that those near him begged him
to think of his family and friends, Cap
tain Johnson would not do q single
thing to help his condition. He made
the statement that he would never
leave the wreck alive.
According to survivors, about thirty
persons left the wreck on the two life
RATS and in a boat.
Captain Gibbs, who went from Seat
tie to the wreck on the steamer City Of
Topeka, said the survivors told him
that the best of order was preserved on
board.
when the time came for the life
boats to leave the Valencia" said Cap
tain Gibbs, the officers ordered all the
women to take to the RATS. The sur
vivors say that in spite of the fact
that the Valencia was beginning to
break up the women refused TO go on
the life RATS or in the lifeboats, stat
ing that they would take their chances
with the ship rather than leave.
When the men rescued left the wreck
there were known to be aboard the
Valencia about sixty persons, as fol-
lows: Captain Johnson, First Officer
Holmes, Fourth Officer Aberg, Chief
Engineer W. f. Downing. Assistant
Freight Clerk Il. T.. Hopkins. Chief
Steward J. Hoddinott, Second Steward
n. H. Campbell. Barkeeper Wilkins,
Stewardess Musgrove, Porter Hughes,
eight women, three children and about
forty men.
The whaling steamer Orion reports
having seen three men on shore around
a fire. 1t was thought that these men
were survivors as yet ~unaccounted for.
A statement given out here says that
information had been received from
the wreck that a life raft and a life
boat, yet ~unaccounted for, had got
away safely from the Valencia. On
while no one knows how many We're in
the lifeboat.
The Dry Docks Voyage.