What could possibly make people just disappear like that???
Maybe a Phoenician ship had gone down, and the only survivor washed ashore.
And it was Helen Thomas.
The BBC article said they lived on pier structures. A fire collapsed the pier and the contents of the house fell into the water. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9168000/9168497.stm