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Massacre at Duffy's Cut : Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, William E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Pennsylvania--Malvern--Case studies.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation--Pennsylvania--Malvern--Case studies.
- Cholera--Pennsylvania--Malvern--History--19th century.
- Cholera.
- Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--Malvern--History--19th century.
- Irish Americans.
- Railroad construction workers--Pennsylvania--Malvern--History--19th century.
- Railroad construction workers.
- Duffy's Cut Site (Malvern, Pa.)--History.
- Duffy's Cut Site (Malvern, Pa.).
- Pennsylvania Railroad--History.
- Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Arcadia Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- The shocking murder of railroad laborers in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania-and the centuries-long coverup that followed-is revealed in this true crime history. In June 1832, railroad contractor Philip Duffy hired fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They were sent to a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. Six weeks later, all of them were dead. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery, and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Ireland and America: Immigration and Industrialization
- Philip Duffy and Duffy's Cut: An Immigrant Laborer Becomes a Gentleman
- What Happened at Duffy's Cut
- Cholera and Murder
- The PRR File: Railroaders and Others Remember Duffy's Cut
- Recovery at Duffy's Cut
- Commemoration of Duffy's Cut
- Concluding Assumptions
- Appendix A: Account of the Duffy's Cut Incident by Julian Sachse, 1889
- Appendix B: Duffy's Philadelphia and Columbia Mile 60 Contract, Village Record, June 9, 1829
- Bibiliography
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781439665626
- 1439665621
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