GRIM RELIC OF A WRECK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8220, 25 August 1906, Page 5

GRIM RELIC OF A WRECK.

Received August 24, 7.35 a.m. VANCOUVER, August 23. •A lifeboat belonging to the ship Valencia, whiob was wrecked at Cape Beale, near Vancouver, has been found with eigbt skeletons buried under tons of rubbish in a oave near the scene of the wreck. (The ship Valencia, a passenger vessel plying between San B'rancisoo and Victoria, was driven out of her course on January 24tb, and went ashore a few miles Boutb of Cape Beale. Thexe were said to be 150 paßsejigers on board, mostly Americans, and Canadians, and of these 107 lost their lives. The loss of life was chiefly due to the panic whioh seized the passengers, who were sleeping in their beitbs at the time of the accident. The night was very dark, and the storm was at its height, when the passengers rushed on deck, many beiog swept from their feet and carried overboard by the seas that broke over the ship, and some being crushed by falling wreckage. A number seized life preservers and jumped overboard, and the crew were able to launch one boat. The boat, however, was overturned, anc; most of those who had jumped into the wild surf were drowned.)