Show STARVED FOI S FIVE DAYS stowaways narrow escape erlih death on a steamer new york aug 10 only tho rclark able physical endurance of william langella lc in existing practically without food or drink for nearly five days prevented a tragedy in tho hold of tha liner cedric which haa just after a voyage of ten days from liverpool s langelle stowed away at liverpool on the night of jul without being discovered secreting himself until there was no fear 0 his being put ashore by means of a jack pried open a hatch in the mid ship hold and st was not until the cedric was seven days out that the watch reported to commander haddock of having heard a muffled tapping on one of the hatches the commander immediately ordered an investigation with the result that the unconscious and almost famished man waa discovered imprisoned between several large boxes of merchandise after working over langelle for nearly twenty four hows the burgeon succeeded in bringing him around langelle said that after secreting him self under the hatch it was shut down by the sailors and fastened then he realized that he was prisoner with only a few biscuits and a flask of rum between himself and starvation by husbanding hus banding his meagre stock of food he managed to subsist for twenty four hours and then cut his way into an iron bound crate and secured some raw on ions lie was only able to cut n holo large enough to abstract four onions and aliis constituted bis sole fare until he was discovered |