SEVENTY DROWNED.
A SHIPPING DISASTER.
AMERICAN STEAMER GOES DOWN ONLY TWO 'SURVIVORS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Com/rluht. (Received September 21, 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 20. The steamer Francis H. Leggetfc foundered in a gale on Friday. Seventy were drowned, including fifty-one passengers. There were only two survivors.
[The Francis H. Leggett was a" steel screw three-masted steamer of 1606 tons. She was built in 1903, and was. owned by the Hicks-Hamptmaine Lumber Company, of San Francisco. The vessel was fitted with a wireless installation and for the consumption of oil fuel.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 194, 21 September 1914, Page 4
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90SEVENTY DROWNED. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 194, 21 September 1914, Page 4
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