Flooded Vt. town struggles to ID cemetery remains

Monday, October 17, 2011

ROCHESTER, Vt. -- The remnants of Hurricane Irene killed four people in Vermont, but the storm scattered dozens of sets of human remains -- bodies pried from eternal rest in a mountain cemetery and swept down a raging river, where some may never be identified or even found.

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