The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 1

ye | toes a — 222 | FReERPEEZ EF eae =— = ha — One Cent--Last Edition” “Tre Seattle — tar |TOPEKA BRINGS TO SEATTLE WASHINGTON DAY, JANUARY The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News a4 CENTS } PER MON? MONTE SURVIVORS OF THE VALENCIA Wrecked Mariners sengers of the lll-Fated Vessel Add the Stories of Their Ex- periences to Those Already Told---All Deny That Women Were Sacrificed Through Cow- ardice of the Men. Another Was & gary of the tra wreck steamedip \ 6 . steamer ( “a ; eariy (his ‘ \ virors saved he fa by «© many aboa OF these people, 17 came away eaiy thre . she went to hed crest. ix others < Poastwain MeCa nt . that left the Vale a Tuesday a exnoon In an attempt to get a line Gahore, are among the crowd. The men are b « in ee < the word. They ¥ and reach land © ‘ most hopeless task. « that they are today alive ¢ t considered @ © Moeh of t written In recounting easter, one of mow that has ever occurred on the west const, is still ¥ he ta the men, snatche from the watery grave tha gx score of their ings suffered. Skill Wan and White. Wan and white they are, eves deep eet and staring even yet, apparently trying to pierce the darkness of the Gepair that settied aboard the Geamship when all seemed lost Bands pallid and weak and un fala in their = movements. Has these were ¢ Ba large meas ‘Worked to save the few for the wal ation which wax denied so many To the casual observer the arrival of these res wople was only ex . treordinary from the fact that they eon favored by appeared te he & Providence that claimed so many others yt dent of human gatore it was the f ending of a chapter of horror, seidom O8R tered and rarely if ever cx er. patted in the occurences that mark the unussa! As the lights of the city became visible t© the people aboard the To- peka, to their shame it is not sald. many of the rescued men broke into tears. Thoughts those despairing souls who had « doom fm the stygian darkness surrounding the wreck made the contrast so painful that tears were a relief. Hope for Others. It was a disappointment that the Topeka had not been able to save others. Even ite The ehasire news yesterday te end of the vessel, it was some few might ha Relding onto rocks until beats This was sible feat. howe and after cruis fag around for an entire day at the head of the at able to send « the land, the rescue steamer re- Iuetantly headed back for Seatti¢ Other craft are there yet. several @mali steamers from Victoria, that may lessen the death roll to a small without being extent, but this is regarded as a highly improbable ml able in view of the fact that ne eh a th Of & person from sel hating secured a temporary re uge along the inhospitable Few people were at the the Topeka la The n the survivor: taft had beer Angries tnitely when ¢ able lo wa of the cx ed on the re one came ash tering around to t tals. Add Little to Story It wad little that the eur . the wreck 1 tell wh h already tions th tafle to the last ni children had been men {1 ra in the if Gathe geth these n Voices mod wpon t = as lif last ful th * too, at t e 7 e whi had snatched the ] denly fr threatened death be Beath the waver Of the reseved pec Roatewa: MeOarth left the Va a ‘ n €atly to wet a lif A ceegtt who, insten f t Progress n another dir tion, where reach , huts and sent et first md of the secident. ‘T OT t Barafleld f Beale He by the tug of Victoria, a, eattle boat, be with those from Sejalis Goos to Lorne The raft foun " traits orig inal held 19 mor + Sonu Se ealis, the fireman w ndeavored | to swim ashore trom + with &@ ling transterr fo tants bs could iirect t the @xact neene of th, wreck Valencia the Sal veanel He and Pas- SACRIFICED 16 A Ch IN MANHOOD man on boar All the surviv the statement ARRIVING ON Survivors Leave Topeka breakfast aboar LIST OF VALENCIA SURVIVORS WHO ARRIVED MORNING ment that th SEATTLE THIS taken to a C. Allison, pa } J. Johnson, third co G. L. Willits, passenger P. Poivner, fireman G. D. Harraden, ; | Will also be afforded al Carrick’s Story but the Vafenci M, Farprey, quartermaster ung clear around th water that Capt P. V. O'Brien, \ ? , W: Raymond, messman, 1548 South st., San Francisco. KB, Carrick, first assistant engineer, 1505 Sanchez st., San Francisco, W. D. Johnson, coal passer, 2495 Pine st. San Francisco the rocks and Everybody was|the spirits @| Those not pulling an oar were be- cool and collected except a the women, who lahed clothir o- J t . all would be safe. cmt 5. Walch, waiter, x6 Chattanoc ©. Fluhme, | ¥, Lehn, first assistant freight cl but was instantly emashed | | Joseph McCaffery, ; Branswick. A. Hawkins, J. Hoddinott, Peter Peterson, » cond officer, growling sea In Sight of All. T. J. McCarthy, | Thomas Shields. | side, but some of the men Ia T. Bampeon, San Fra C. Brown, aA SLENDER LINE , WAS ONLY HOPE }1T HUNG FOR THREE HOURS BETWEEN VALENCIA AND THE SHORE, BUT THERE WAS NO ONE TO TAKE IT stood frozen swallowed by the in my misery. med ages while ‘ BRITISHERS GET : CLOSE TO WRECK | ROW TO WITH | rapidly CREW OF BLUEJACKETS ABOARD SURF BOAT IN 100 YARDS OF DESERTED HOLD OF THE VALENCIA od Valencia and thet suctambed tr WREGK “NOTES fine as the eobluffe at any Story of Lorne Trip REAL HEROISM HANDS WITH made | Downing standing waist | deep in the water at ed in grabbing |#ea and wind were to attach to the ra arommd in the Bravery of Knight wreckage and rock sharply as with a knife. Go Close to S “Every many on board the watched with admiration greatest problem wo' ud be “engineering insignificant eremnatedl with the Inher neehien poe of, Vietorians, told in Yesterday's the pr {Bngolman wa for ham with the big shipment. of Roth. Carrick and anim. earls u le effort to save the ails shore ae ae exclusively lin the Se Star, reached ment of the funeral expenses of the to strap | watched lots Ramatar Mitchell of Oregon. tne that thew wenta ‘CARRICK BRANDS STORY AS FALSE WHO SAYS WOMEN ABOARD THE VALENCIA AND A COWARD AND LACKING RT EEE COP eee eee eee eee eee eee ee ee * * - . 1 * ci . a * * be ur of th A last made t maine Is " Ae P fe raft ee and as 8 with th: pa ee Captain Says Farewell, “Captain Johnson stood with and bade us goodby nd choking trugele getting We we shore that we all chilling roared and over wh d as the Queen came on. The oars had previously been lash- ed to the raft, but were useless un- water. We cut them loose and were “i face to face, aced on thus n k These |two men were braced by others pushing against their backs and sit- ting on their feet. I was on the stern of the over-freighted raft, at- tempting to steer. Buffeted and tossed about by the unrelenting sea, we continued toward the Queen Hope was high, and everyone work- ed and shouted with might aa main. T Queen rapidly drew away fr s and finally disap- peared from view. Most of the pas- sengers w crushed with despair. | Iteted Ba fo starboard, but im- | Some of us did our best to keep up mediately righted. ot the down hearted. coming benumbed and chilled |through with the intense cold and the washing of the sea. Sight the Topeka. “Bome of the men began blubber- ing and many were frothing at the mouth. It seemed that many were losing their minds. An incoherent sho from one of the passengers drew our attention and following his pointed finger we saw what aft- erwards proved to be the Topeka It seemed as though her arrival was a merciful messenger from God. “In a few minutes she was along- inert and powerless to grasp lines cast from the Topeka. Finally all were hauled aboard and every was shown us by the rescue party, were rescued at 1:30 o'clock, having been in the water over four hours. If the Topeka had not ar- rived when she did we would prob- ably have 2 lost, as all of us were succumbing to the intense 1 WANT YOU TO SAY THAT CAPTAIN JOHNSON AND EVERY MEMBER OF HIS CREW DID VERYTHING IN HUMAN POW. oR TO CARE FOR T WOMEN AND CHILDR JUST READ IN THE TIME A STORY INSIN- ING THAT COWARDICE AND FISHNESS WAS DISPLAYED 1 CREW. ANY MAN WHO ARES THAT ANY OFFICER OR MEMBER OF THE CREW DE- SERTED ONE WOMAN OR CHILD OR DID NOT SHOW THEM EV- ERY ATTENTION POSSIBLE I8S A COWARD AND A CUR, AND HAS N’T A SPARK OF MANHOOD IN HIS MAKEUP Endorsed by All. Th Mr, Carrick was ech sized by all the w Carri ¥ Franci He lost all nd 1 This no car thing Coast al cor tract Mr. Carrick’s brother-in law. Mr. Carrick will stay in Seat tle for a fe ys a then leave for his home in r | Downing take to the particular of @ lady f d of Carrick, She ted to go, but tp » rail and seeing against the s he went pound 1 back to the cabin sereaming. ave the Valencia. They preferred to ta r chances with those on board © Queen aming not far away h bla moke pouring from her funne encouraged — them to stay with the V alencia, as they thought that surely some means would be taken to-resoug. them, nel tin prepared opium with- in the next two wee Judge Han- for gned the above decree of was con- yesterday, The drt ated last November W Harry captured in Belling- ft worked our attention taken HE DID NOT SHOOT CHIEF ENGINEER DOWNING WAS COOL AND BRAVE — SHOOK hing jen- hysterics and » woman could be persuaded to The government will sell 190