FRANCE: A construction worker doing work for a road project uncovered a mass grave on a piece of land owned by Schuylkill residents in Pennsylvania.
If the fact that the grave makes up a huge number of unidentified human bones doesn’t catch enough attention, the bones also mark the resting spot for some area residents killed in the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
This discovery may cause some delay in the construction project along Route 61 near Schuylkill Haven, which is about 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
According to historians, Spanish influenza hit Schuylkill County hard in 1918, making 17,000 people ill and causing the death of nearly 1,600 locals.
“There was a genuine panic, everything closed, schools, hospitals, the only thing left open were drug stores,” said Tom Drogalis, the Schuylkill Historical Society’s executive director.
Officials at the time resorted to a mass grave of unidentified Spanish influenza victims most likely because there were so many people dying so quickly from, as the CDC calls it, the mother of all pandemics. It wouldn’t have been uncommon for people to be buried under a big piece of land, without any markers.
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