MARINE DISASTER.
SIXTY PERSONS DROWNED. VANCOUVER, January 24. The Pacific Coast Company's steamer is ashore at Vancouver. Sixty persons have been drowned and a hundred others are in peril. Nine of the reached Cape Beale. A salvage steamer has been sent to render assistance. HARROWING DETAILS. A FRANTIC MOTHER. Received January 25, 11.46 p.m. VANCOUVER, January 25. The total loss of life in conneotion with the wreck of the Valencia, the Pacific Coast Company's steamer, is, out of a crew of 00 and 94 passengers, at present only fifteen persons are known to have been saved. The vessel struck Cape Heal, whore the rooks rise precipitately to a height of 400 ft. The lifeboats were swamped. A woman dropped two children into the sea while trying to band them to her husband in a boat. She then jumped overboard in despair, aud was drowned. Her husband was drowned while trying to save her.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7949, 26 January 1906, Page 5
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153MARINE DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7949, 26 January 1906, Page 5
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