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Secrets of the Dead

Death on the Railroad

Find out how and why 57 Irish immigrants to the U.S. died in 1832.

05/08/2013 | Expired 12/01/2019 | Rating NR

Death on the Railroad

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Secrets of the Dead

Death on the Railroad

Season 12 Episode 3 | 52m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

Find out how and why 57 Irish immigrants to the U.S. died in 1832.

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?

05/08/2013 | Expired 12/01/2019 | Rating NR

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Death on the Railroad

Season 12 Episode 3 | 52m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

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?

05/08/2013 | Expired 12/01/2019 | Rating NR

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