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Show MEXICAN SCHOONER SINKS WITH LOSS OF 42 LIVES SAN DIEGO, Cal , July 22. Tha Mexican power schooner Jacris Conua, formerly the Japanese owned Tonl Main of this port, turned turtle and foundered recently at night off Biaza tlan, Mexico, with the loss of fort-two fort-two lives, according to word brought here today by tho motorship Jean-nette Jean-nette R. The Conda, according to the meagre information, which members of the crew of the Jeannette R . were able to gather, was five days pyerdUS fit Mansanlllo before fears were ente - J lained for her safety. Bo lies ol the victims of the tragedy declared bv shipping men to have been the worst on the west coast of Mexl- co in a decade, first washed ashoro J forty miles south of Maxatlan. All of those w ho perished were said to have been Mexicans According to the reports brought here by the crew of the Jeannette R. the Conda went down In the middle of ino night in a comparatively calm The name of the master of the schooner won not known here. |