NINE PAYS OF HORROR
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF A BOAT'S CREW
GHASTLY RECORD OF A DIARY
fAOSTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 1, 8.30 a.m.).
LONDON, 31st May. Bpfore the Alnwick Castle was torpedoed, on 19th March, she picked up the crew of the torpedoed steamer Trevos, whose sufferings for nine days in the bjtter cold are narrated in an engineer's diary. On the third day the chief cook died from exposure, and the store-keeper went mad. On the fourth day the boatswain and a passenger died, and on the fifth three more died. On the sixth day a cattleman jumped overboard .and was drowned, and on the seventh two men died of thirst and exposure. Another man died on the ninth day. \ The survivors were landed suffering terribly from frostbitten feet, their toes, dropping off. One man succumbed, and a.baby, which had been saved by the sacrifices of the others, subsequently died from meningitis.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 130, 1 June 1917, Page 7
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