Show SEVENTY DROW DROWNED ED WHEN SCHOONER SINKS AT SEA Vessel Is Pounded to pieces In Gale Gal Sixty Mlle Miles Below Bolow Mouth of Columbia River Portland Ore Between Between seventy and eighty men women and children S coastwise passengers and crew o othe on oc the three three-masted steam schooner Francis H. H Leggett were drowned drowne I late Friday when the Leggett wa was S pom pounded ded to pieces in a gale sixty miles below the mouth of the Colum bla bia river Two men picked were u ur up I L. L I oy ay passing steamers ana anu carried t to I Astoria and Portland to tell how th the i ir sea tore the vessel to pieces and ho how bow r the passengers were drowned a boatload boatload boat load at a time as the lifeboats pu put put off or met their fate a little later late when the vessel turned completely over Alexander Farrell the only survivor sur to reach land thus far also recounted recounted recounted re re- counted how In the height of ot th the S storm Captain J. J Jens Jensen n of San Francisco Francisco Fran cisco a passenger who lost his own owr I Iship ship six months ago and for four bum months succeeding was marooned on or onI onan I Ian an uninhabited Island came to the aid of Captain Moro Ioro of the Leggett took command of the passengers ant and controlled them until she sank ank takIng taking tak take Ing him with her It is believed that Captain Moro Ioro I of the Leggett was washed overboard i shortly before the ship sank for I 1 Iwas It L was Captain Jensen Farrell said who was in charge of a futile attempt to tc launch two lifeboats which foundered foun dered as soon as a. they struck the water |