‘Father Zeus! the rest of the blissful gods who never die- punish them all, that crew of Laertes’ son Odysseus– what an outrage! They killed my cattle,” (12. 282. 406-408)
Helios is distraught because Odysseus's comrades killed his cattle brutally. He isinforming Zeus to not let them get home since he is angered.
Zdrs: 2
Zeus casting a lighting bolt so that the comrades will not get home and die.
Sun, you keep on shinning among the deathless gods And mortal men across the good green earth. And as for the guiltones, why, soon enough On the wine-dark sea, ’ll hit their racing ship With a white-hot bolt, I’ll tear it into splinters.” (12. 283. 414-418)
Zdrs: 3
"Then, in the same breath Zeus hit the craftwith a lightning-bolt and thunder. ... Round she spun, reeling under the impact, filled with reeking brimstone, shipmates pitching out of her, bobbing round like seahawks swept along by the whitecaps past the trim black hull--" (448-451)
All of the other comrades are dead because of Zeus's lighting bolt. Odysseus is the only one remaining.
All the other comrades died and the only person left was Odysseus