A railroad grave exposed an 1832 story that did not fit. π . . . Records said 57 Irish laborers at Duffy's Cut, Pennsylvania, died during a cholera outbreak just weeks after arriving. Excavations begun in 2004 recovered remains bearing blunt-force injuries; one skull contained a projectile wound. Cholera reached the campβbut apparently not every victim died from it.
Source
Smithsonian Magazine, 2010, 'The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut'
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