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Show SCHOONER GOES DOWN WITH ALL ON BOARD Marine Disaster Sixty Miles South of Columbia River; Details Ara Lacking. PORTlA.ND, Ore., Sept. 18. Sinking Sink-ing of the big steam schooner Francis 11. Leggett, with her crew of fifteen to twenty men and thirty-seven passengers, pas-sengers, sixty miles south nf the t'ol-umhia t'ol-umhia river, was reported by wireless tonight to the Port, of Portland commission. com-mission. The report was said to have come from a Japanese cruiser. The Leggctt is equipped with wireless, but no "message from her and none concerning concern-ing the fate of her crew and passeu-gers passeu-gers has been received. She sank in a gale at 3 p. m., according to tho dispatch. dis-patch. The I.oirgett ii a three-masted i-hoor.er of I'i'Jti tons gross registry and a capacity nf l.nnii.OOO feet of lumber. She is' operated by the. Charles R. McCormick company of San Francisco. |