Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-26
Of Va|encia's Survivors
Numbering Over SO.
Twenty Men, Almost Dead, Res
cued From a Life Raft.
More Details Of the Disaster---Steamer Now
Broken Up aud Sunken.

Victoria, p. c., Jan. 25.-With only
SO of the 154 persons on board known
To be safe, up TO Il late hour tonight,
the wrecked steamer Valencia now
lies submerged and broken on the VAN
cCuver coast, five miles from Cape
Reale. Only a portion of a mast
stands above the water, and the fleet
of steamers and tugs today turned
their attention TO patrolling the coast
in the hope Of finding boats. RATS or
Wreckage still afiOat. with survivors,
But the belief grows stronger each
hour that 121 persons. including most
OF the passengers, are lost.
Ashore several rescue parties are
toilinS over difficult trails, some car
rying Succor to those who We're wash
ed ashore in a pitiable plight. and
others securing the rugged rocks of
the seashore seeking such survivors
as may nave reached land. Still others
are engaged in the melancholy work
of recovering bodies.
Ii the 30 persons definitely accounted
FOR. and these do not include three men
believed to be survivors seen on shore
by the whaling vessel Orion. six have
been taken on the Salvor. bruised, half
naked and exhausted. Nine others in
similar plight are still camped on
Darling creek in telegraph hut while
the remaining IS We're picked up by the
City of Topeka from raft
Not 4 woman or child is among the
saved, survivors saying that the
women refused to leave the wreck even
wnen told that tie ship was going to
pieces.
Doctors on the rescuing tugs say that
| the limit of human endurance has been
! passed before this time and that all per-
| sons on life RATS are likely deed. The
! feet of steamers engaged in patrollinS
| were seen this morning in the vicinity Of
| Darling river. The steamer Salvor. which
| left Bamfield Creek this morning after
| sending part of her crew over the land
| trails to seek survivors. and the whaling
| steamer Orio. 4 vessel better equipped
1 than any in these waters to throw lines
| to n wreck, the steamer Queen. which
4 stopped at the wreck on the way to San
4 Francisco. the tug I.orne, sent from Vic
| toria last night with Il party of blue
/ jackets and Il life boat on board, were
/ all there, and as far as could be learned
| from correspondents at various points,
! none had found any other survivors.
\ Victoria. b. G.. Jan. 25.-The WHAT
\ ing steamer Orion arrived at Bamfield
Creek station this afternoon from the
wreck of the Valencia and reported
Il having seen three men on shore around
a fire. 1t was thought that these men
II were survivors as yet unaccountcd for.
/ The Valencia lay submerged. with on
! ly Il portion of Il mast sticking out OF
Il the water.
Il The tug Lorne. sent out by tn
Il Puget Sound Tugboat Co, reached the
/ vicinity Of the Valencia wreck this
morning soon after daylight. having
on board Il party of British blue
jackets from Esquimaltwho will go in
boats TO see if any possible survivors
can be reached.
It is feared the rcscuers are too late
to find anyone still living.
A dispatch received at O'Clock this
afternoon by The Associated Press
from Pachena telegraph hut reports
the steamer Salvor and whaler Orion
and another steamer believed to be
the City of Topeka, We're off the mouth
of Darling river. A small boat from
the SalVor tried to get through the
surf to make landing and succor the
survivors there. but failed. The small
boat returned to the steamer. The
surf will be unnavigable for several
days.
| The survivors at Darling river are
/ from boats No. and No. 5, of the
Valencia. They report that Il men
started from the steamer in boat No.
IL. 1t capsized and seven of its occu-
pants We're washed ashore. The other
eight persisted. All wore life preserv-
erS.
Boat No. left the wreck with six
or seven on board. 1t was also cap
sized and only two. Richley and Bun
ker, the former a fireman and the lat
ter passenger, bound to Seattle.
made the land. The wife and two
children of F. f. Bunker were drowned
before his eyes.
The survivors at Darling river tele-
graph hut are reported from Bamiicld
to be in a deplorable condition and
utterly unable to make Il move along
the trail TO the nearest place of shell
ter. One has a sprained ankle and
some of them are without shoes. The
only provisions they have received
were taken by a party of three from
Bamfeld yesterday
The storm is abating and the spot
where the wreck occurred can now be
approached in boats.
The steamer Queen, on her way from
Victoria to San Francisco returned
again and lay to until o'clock this
afternoon.
Three bodies were recovered this
afternoon. Little wreckage is wash
ing ashore. Only some sheets. pillows
and ribbons have been picked up
Communication has been held with
Richmond. McWha and Mousley by
telegraphers from the Bamfield Greek
cable station at Darling river wherE
nine survivors We're taken care of
> The Salvor and the whaler Orion ant
the tug 14o:ne are all cruising in tn,
vicinity of the wreck to aid any per-
sors still adrift. Donald Ross. one o.
the passengers drowned on the Valen-
cia. lost his wife on the Clallam wher