Canal banks are sometimes simply piled mounds of dirt. The chalk dug from the ditch was piled up to form the bank. At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Earth is piled up against exterior walls and packed, sloping down away from the house. Dead bodies were piled up to be burned. The carriages behind piled into the wrecked engines and caught fire. Traditionally, worn out clothes and saris were piled together and stitched into quilts. Fallen leaves are piled against the doors. Behind them on the road, bodies were piled high. The pots in turn were piled on shelves close to cow dung. These shrimp were so abundant that beaches were piled with windrows from their moults. The burning sticks are then piled into a bonfire. Jones alleged that bodies had piled up and conditions were filthy. At intervals, rocks were piled up to high. The dead and injured were piled into vehicles and taken away, possibly for cremation.