Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-11
NO FOOD OR WATER.
4 StowaWay's Nine Days ot
 Fearful Torture.
NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER.
Not Even Room in the Hold of the Ship
 to Stand Up.

Charles Burzell Went to Sleep in the El
 1KOnto at New Orleans-Lifted Out at
 New York More Shadow--Chewed tI.C
 Leather Sweat Band of His flat for
 Food, and for Water Licked the Moist.
 ure from the Iron Sides of the Vessel
 NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-It is doubtful if any one experienced nine more fearful days of torture than handsome, we'll educated, we'll connected Charles Bur- zelle has just gone through. The doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital, where he is, frightful experience.
 For nearly nine full days he was bat tened down in the hold of the Morgan through the Gulf of Mexico and up the coast to New York.
 When the big ship arrived at her wharf, the 'longshormen began discharg- ing her cargo. As one of the great bales was lifted from it's place at the bottom of the hold, the shadow of 8 mana man who was little more than shadow-was seen lying in the held of the ship. He was too weak to rise. That he was alive surprised every one. He could not get either food or water.
 The day before he had eaten the last shred of the leather sweat-band inside of his hat. He had chewed it, morsel by morsel, making it last as long as possible before he swallowed mouthful.
 Of water he had not drop, and when his parched tongue began to swell and burn from thirst he turned his face to black, moist side of the iron vessel and pressed his tongue against it. The scant moisture he licked from the iron plates did not quench his thirst-it aggravated it. But the cold and moisture prevented his tongue from swelling till it choked him, as it otherwise would.
 When the longshoremen helped him out of the hold tears came to their eyes as they thought of his sufferings. Two men helped him to the company's office, and he told his story as well as he could
 He said his home was in Rockland Maine, and that he had been travelling about the country, finally reaching New Orleans, where he found himself penni. less. His sister sent him enough money to pay his way to New York. He showed her letter, which was fond, sisterly epistle, in which she gave her brother good advice and also told about her mar riage to a wealthy citizen of small tow1 of Massachusetts, which had just oc' cured.
 Before he had bought a. ticket young Burzell says some one robbed him of the money while he was asleep in a cheeI I lodging house in New Orleans. Ashamed to ask his good sister for more money, h' wsnt to the cotton port of Algiers and tried to ship as a sailor to work his pas sage to this city, where he was sure h' could find work.
 Failing in this he crawled into the holt ] of the Fl Monte and lay down to sleel through the night. Before he awoke th' 1 loading had been finished, the hatche battened down, and the Fl Monte Wal standing out to sea, He shouted, but O 1 course was not heard.
 Trying to move he faund that the bale of cotton had been showed over him as h' slept, and there was not room in the mar TOW hole to stand up even.
 Burzeile says he never expected to ge out alive. Had the Fl Monte lain da, longer before unloading he would hay bGen dead. As it is the doctors at St Vincent's say he will probably die, he i so weak and exhausted.