Show AMERICANS HELD IN VILE PRISON Crew of Whaling Vessel Thought to Have Been Lost at Sea Are in Venezuelan Dungeon Escaped Prisoner Brings Information of Seizure of Crew When Vessel Arrived at Port In Distress Over Five Years Ago Kingston St Vincent B W Lll may bo that Captain Colin Stephenson Stephen-son and the crtw of tho American whaling ship Carrie D Knowlcs lone since thought to have been lost at sea are still alive In a Venezuelan irlson An American seaman named Payne an escaptd prisoner from Venezuela has made his way to Kingston whero ho laid before the authorities an astounding as-tounding story of the seizure ot tho Carrie D Knowles at a Venezuelan port whore she arrived live years ago In distress and of tho Imprisonment of tho crow A speedy investigation will be made On January 27 1904 tho Carrie D Knowkb sailed from Provlncotown Mass on a whaling voyage Sho was supposed to havo been lost in a West IndIan storm with all hands Soma of tho men belonged in St Vincent hint after all hope was given up ot their return their relatives put on nournlng and tho local Insuranco company eventually paid claims on the assumption that tho sailors were dead Payne declared that the whaler had been disabled in a storm off tho Venezuelan Ven-ezuelan coast and had imiade port In listrcss She was at once seized and ho captain and crew were made prisoners pris-oners He states that all the men aro alive but still closely confined The details of Paynoa escape from Mison arc not known It Is possible however that ho is one or tht scoro or more prisoners who escaped tho penitentiary at Mnracaibo about two IW9Q5 nno > dft |