BURIED ALIVE UNDER CARGO

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 155, 21 September 1934, Page 5

BURIED ALIVE UNDER CARGO

! Grim Ship Tragedy Revealed

j Rivalling in horror sonic of the ficj tion of Edgar Allan Poe, a grinr j tragedy came to light while the Cyp- | rian steamer Evngoras was bring un- ! loaded nl n Liverpool dock recently. | The bodies of two men, both pracj tically skeletons, were discovered aI niong cotton bales in No. 4 hold, and ! apparently they had been buried alive I while trying to slow away. Papers in I r he clothing of the victims pointed to ! their being Poles. j Dock labourers had just started I work- on the vessel when n member i of the ship's crew noticed an arm j curving round from under a bale and | clutching at the side. After the bale l had been removed the man was disi covcre,] in a contorted position in a : crevice between two bales below. ! The side of the top bale had been

; torn, and iron bands wrenched off. I which suggested thai the man had i spoil) his last moments in a desperate ! attempt to escape. The second man ! was not found until the working j partv had reached the other side of I the hold, lie was in a natural posiI tion. and appeared to have died in ; I his sleep. Near him was a basket i j which had probably contained food, j According to her log, the Evagoras j ; left Buenos Aires, where the No. 4 j j hop! was loaded, on May 29. .She took j ! on cargo at Montevideo on the follow- j i iiig day. but litis hold was not touch- j j ed..lt is thought that the men crept ' I into the hold at Buenos Aires.