The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-11
NO FOOD OR WATER
A StOwaway's Nine Days of
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 Eel
Monte at New orleans-Lifted out at
New York "A Mere Shadow--Chewed the
Leather Sweat Band of His Hat for
Food, and for Water Licked the Moist
ure from the Iron sides of the Vessel.
New York, Feb II. 1t is doubtful if
any one experienced nine more fearful
days of torture than handsome, well
educated, we'll connected Charles Bur
zelle has just gone through The doctors
at st. Vincent's Hospital, where he is,
do not expect him to recover from his
frightful experience
For nearly nine full days he was bat
tened down in the hold of the Morgan
Liner Ell Monte, while she sailed out
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 mana man
who was little more than a shadow-was
seen lying in the hold 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'kat He had chewed it, morsel by
morsel, making it last as long as possible
before he swallowed a 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 a small town
of Massachusetts, which had just oc-
Cured.
Before he had bought ticket young
Burzell says some one robbed him of the
money while he was asleep in a cheer
lodging house in New Orleans. Ashamed
to ask his good sister for more money, he
wsnt to the cotton port of Algiers and
tried to ship as sailor to work his pas
sage to this city, where he was sure ht
could find work.
| Failing in this he crawled into the hold
of the El Monte and lay down to sleeI
through the night Before he awoke the
loading had been finished, the matches
battened down, and the El Monte was
standing out to sea, He shouted, but o.
course was not heard.
Trying to move he faund that the bales
of cotton had been showed over him as he
slept and there was not room in the mar
row hole to stand up even.
Burzeile says he never expected to gel
out alive. Had the FL Monte lain day
longer before unloading he would hav,
been dead. AS it is the doctors at ST
Vincent's say he will probably die, he il
| SO weak and exhausted.