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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
3
F F Campbell, a Valencia passenger, recounts volunteers who rushed to launch a lifeboat as the ship broke apart off Bamfield. He describes losing his wife and two children, the brutal sea, and the crew's effort to reach shore amid crushing waves and repeated near-disasters.
A crew member recalls the terrifying night of the Valencia disaster and the desperate escape via a makeshift lifeboat. The narrator describes waves, cliffs, and two men lost on the rocks, the failed rescue attempts, and eventual shelter at Cape Beale lighthouse before possible passage to Victoria.
The Valencia foundered with boats surrounding the wreck in the afternoon. The Queen made an unsuccessful attempt prior to 11 o'clock as the Topeka arrived, but soundings fell too low to reach the stranded steamer.
A 16 year old passenger, Harry Ward son of Minnie B Ward of Bagie Harbor, is unaccounted for after the ill fated vessel voyage. He supported his mother and two sisters and had been in San Jose for months. He was headed to Eagle Harbor to visit relatives and seek local work. Mrs Ward remains in the city awaiting news as Dr T H P Sailer of Philadelphia addressed Presbyterians at Westminster church.
Think It s Good F X Waldron Co promoters and brokers urge purchase of Galena Copper Co stock. They offer an engineer s report on application and tout the investment as legitimate and conservative, among the best opportunities in the market.
Rescue vessels could not approach as mountains of water and 20 foot rollers battered the Valencia. Passengers and crew clung to masts as waves swept over the doomed vessel. By 1:30 PM the stranded ship’s fate was sealed and all aboard were lost, with news relayed to Bamfield and Victoria.
Captain Irving Ward of the police department avoided the ill fated Valencia by not taking passage from Frisco. He had planned to sail with J. B. Graves the alleged diamond thief but chose rail after Graves' father urged sea fear and asked him to travel by train. The elder Graves accompanied them from Frisco.
Freight clerk E. E. Hopkins, not aboard the Valencia since October, rejoined the ship as she set sail, completing an unusual twist of fate in the voyage.
From Seattle, a second clerk named Metz aboard the Valencia perished when the ship foundered. He had left the vessel when summoned from Seattle by Frisco and was alive at that moment. Metz, a familiar figure in Seattle and Nome, previously served as second clerk on the Valencia during last summer’s Nome runs. He made his home in Frisco and was known in Seattle, Beattie, and Nome.
Captain O M Johnson long served in the Valencia command 12 years after rising from quartermaster and has made multiple Nome trips. Chief Engineer E W Downing is a trusted veteran and Purser J J O Farrell has years of service and roots in Frisco real estate before joining the company.
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