5.29.11 Fever

Fever swept through Philadelphia that summer of 1783, during the hot, humid, scorching, sweltering summer months. The bells that hung in the church tower tolled ceaselessly, an awful reminder that thousands of people died daily. Many children had been stripped of their parents and children had been mercilessly taken from parents. Everyone lived, stricken with the fear that they too would be victims of the awful fever. The city streets once crowded and bustling with merchants and shoppers now stood desolate, abandoned by the outside world. The fever combed through the streets of Philadelphia, ruthlessly killing everyone in its path.