File:Railroaders furloughed in Brunswick, cholera epidemic affected canal workers near Berlin, The Frederick News-Post historical reprint, December 19, 1921.pdf: Difference between revisions

Summary

"One hundred and fifty men, employed in the car and engine repair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Brunswick, were furloughed Saturday until January 12. The suspension is part of the general program of the company that caused the furloughing of about 5,000 men Saturday. Approximately seventy-five men were suspended in each shop at Brunswick."

"Christian Thomas Albaugh, within a month of his 90th birthday, remembers well the cholera epidemic around this section years ago during which time he says that many of the people of Frederick county died. The disease found its way into the workmen gangs at the canal around Brunswick, and the result was terrible. At that time, according to Mr. Albaugh, medical science had not discovered a cure for cholera. When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Albaugh was twenty-odd years old, married and had two children to support. The draft, however, caught him, but he was exempted after an examination by the army physicians, who pronounced him afflicted with heart trouble."