Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

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Excerpt:June 15 1878 to look at. I thought this must be the End. But No I was seemingly in Philadelphia and there every- thing was still no living soul was to be seen to greet me, and it seemed as though the whole City was without an inhabitant. In arch and chestnut street and in fact Every whare I went the putrifcation of the Dead bodies caused such a stench that it was Impossible for any creature to Exhist alive, nor did I see ...