ORDEAL ON RAFT
FOUR DAYS ADRIFT,
SOLE SURVIVORS OF PARTY ' /OF NINE
(Received January 25, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 24.
Parched, frost-bitten, and semidelirious, Stigand Bergstrom, a survivor of the Swedish steamer Foxen, which was sunk irf the North Sea, landed after four days adrift on a raft surrounded by corpses. His sole subsistence' was a tin of salt beef which he opened with an iron nail. A .search steamer missed the nine castaways in the darkness. The cook and a mess boy froze,, to death and their bodies were thrown overboard and a fireman, maddened by drinking sea water, followed. A steam trawler 50 yards away failed to hear •the cries of two brothers, who then died.'
. Bergstrom awoke and saw his own brother in the sea, but was powerless to save him. His last two shipmates succumbed three hours before the arrival of the rescue steamer, the Leka.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 12
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150ORDEAL ON RAFT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 12
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