Show all the seamen went down with the ship victoria B dec 27 the british bark pass of melfort captain cougal from ancon for sound drove ashore on the rocks of vancouver island a quarter of a mile east of point last night and all on board were lost the vessel wa making tor the entrance to the straits bhea the terrific southwest gale drove her to a lee shore on vancouver it land and the ship drove with terrific force on to the rocks breaking up soon afterward bodies of the lost seamen are now coming ashore the first body recovered was that of a seaman dressed in oil skins and overalls two more were soon afterward seen rolling in the heavy surf but could not be recovered A number of the ships buckets all marked pass of melfort were found on the beach and not far away in a small bay at the extreme of point which marks the westerly entrance to barclay sound the ships barometer broken boats oars and the figurehead of the wrecked bark came ashore together with other wreckage two epars were visible to watchers from washing about as though held by other submerged wreckages wreck ages A torn piece of paper which seems like part of the log book of captain Cou gaII was found on the beach with the name john houston on it and not far away a water soaked photograph of fifteen seamen and apprentices of the pass of melfort taken at the break of the barks poop was found on the beach tonight at midnight captain james gauden agent of marine and fisheries received a dispatch that everything was being done to recover more bodies and to identify it possible the bodies that had come ashore there was a whistling buoy recently placed off point but it disappeared in a gale two weeks ago and two days before christmas the government steamer quadra was sent to look for the missing buoy to replace it but the government steamer tailed to find the buoy and returned to port tor christmas the pas of melfort is a british four masted steel bark of 2346 tons built in 1891 at glasgow tor gibson clark she was last seen by the brit uh ship brodack castle which was passed by the wrecked bark and captain dieson of the brodick castle who himself had a narrow escape cheri coming into the straits had expected to find the lost vessel in port before him |