STEAMER WRECKED.
SIXTY PEOPLE PERISH. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS IN DANGER. By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Vancouver, Jan, 24. The Pacific Coast Company’s steamer Valencia is ashore at Vancouver. Sixty persons were drowned, ana 100 are in peril. Nine others reached Cape Beale. A salvage steamer has been sent, ONLY 15 RESCUED OUT OF 154. FATE OF FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN. By, telegraph, Press A’ss’n, Copyright Received 10 p.m., Jan. 25. Vancouver, Jan. 25. The Valencia is a total loss. Out of a crew of sixty and ninety-four passengers, at present only fifteen are known (o have been saved. The vessel struck Cape Beale, where the rocks rise precipitately 400 feet. The lifeboats were swamped, A woman dropped two children into the sea while trying to hand them to her husband in a boat. She jumped overboard in despair and was drowned. Her husband was drowned in trying to save her.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1658, 26 January 1906, Page 2
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