Sunday, May 22, 2005

"How could so many die?" Graves may tell story of terrible epidemic

Some of the many graves exhumed at the site may have been filled with the victims of smallpox and other diseases brought by Europeans in the 1700s. Frances Charles, chairwoman of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, counts cedar boxes full of ancestral remains dug from the site. They still await reburial.