News Articles and Ephemera
| Title: | Sorrow at Duffy’s Cut; Bones beneath the tracks |
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| Author: | Holmes, Kristin E. |
| Source: | Philadelphia Inquirer; Pennsylvania Gazette( Nov., 2010) |
| Date: | 11/8/2011 |
| Folder/Item #: | Railroads-Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (1); 42 |
| Notes: | Two long articles with pictures. |
| Abstract: | Mystery of how 57 Irish railroad workers died 178 years ago at mile 59 near Malvern. First thought was that they died of cholera. Now researchers believe the men were murdered by blows to the skull. Irish workers’ mass grave too close to tracks to excavat |