After seeking a place in the fort to confine the prisoners (including Holwell), at 8.00 p.m., the jailers stripped the prisoners of their clothes and locked the prisoners in the fort's prison—“the black hole” in soldiers' slang—a small room that measured 4.30 × 5.50 meters (14 × 18 feet).The next morning, when the black hole was opened, at 6.00 a.m., only about 23 of the prisoners remained alive.
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