(Source: Associated Press, October 30, 2011)
MALVERN, Pa. — The Irish immigrants building a stretch of railroad near Philadelphia in 1832 had been in the U.S. only a few weeks when they died — ostensibly of cholera — and were unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave. Their families never knew what happened to them.
Nearly 180 years later, local researchers say they have a clearer picture of the men’s fate. But their massive effort to unearth, identify and properly re-inter the workers’ remains will not be realized; the grave is inaccessible, they say, and will remain undisturbed.
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