Less than two months after 57 Irish immigrants were hired to lay railroad track in Pennsylvania in 1832, all were dead. Were they victims of a cholera epidemic or something much darker?

They laid his bones in a bed of Bubble Wrap, with a care beyond what is normally given to fragile things.

See stills and behind the scene images of Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad

Less than two months after 57 Irish immigrants were hired to lay railroad track in Pennsylvania in 1832, all were dead. Were they victims of a cholera epidemic or something much darker?