Show SEVENTY BROWNED WHEN SCHOONER SINKS AT SEA vessel is pounded to pieces in gale sixty miles below mouth of i columbia river portland ore between seventy and eighty men women and children coastwise passengers and crew on the three masted steam schooner francis 11 II leggett were drowned late lalo friday when the leggett was pounded to pieces in a gale sixty miles below the mouth of the columbia river two men were picked up by passing steamers and carried to astoria and portland to tell how bow the sea tore the vessel to pieces and how the tha passengers were drowned a boatload at a time as the lifeboats put off or met their fate a little later when the vessel turned completely over |