Down in the Delta is an epistolary short story written by Delta Green co-creator Adam Scott Glancy. The story was released on 2014-01-08 as a bonus download for purchasers of The Unspeakable Oath issue 22.
Father Marks' reading
The story contains a list of URLs. At the time of publication, several of these were already dead.
- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020405/ap_on_re_us/illegal_crematorium_1&cid=533
- Dead on 2014-01-09. Judging by the URL, it was an Associated Press piece from Miami, printed in several publications from 2002-04-05 on. The version [https://www.deseret.com/2002/4/6/19647503/19-bodies-are-seized-at-illegal-crematorium] by the Deseret News on 2002-04-06 offered the following summary: "State officials seized 19 bodies at an illegal crematorium Friday and arrested the operator, who is already under investigation for a scheme in which mortuary students allegedly embalmed corpses without the consent of family members."
- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020219/1/2imn5.html
- Dead on 2014-01-09. Archived by the Internet Archive. A 2002-02-20 story on Yahoo's Singapore news outlet, about the first major find of bodies alleged to have been cremated by a business with a broken furnace in Georgia. Headline: "Georgia crematorium scandal makes US funeral industry look 'ghoulish'".
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1828000/1828385.stm
- Live on 2014-01-09. This BBC article has the headline "US crematorium scandal deepens". Publication date is 2002-02-19.
- http://www.theadvocate.com/opinion/story.asp?StoryID=4060
- Dead on 2014-01-09. At some point, "The Advocate" combined its web site with WBRZ at http://www.2theadvocate.com, a news site based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The old StoryID argument to story.asp appears to have been rendered meaningless in the process.
- http://neworleans.citysearch.com/search?type=dgrid&c_id=130&cats=289&dlink=1&sorted=rank-desc&start=41
- As of 2014-01-09, this URL produces a directory of funeral directors in New Orleans. Dynamic content, but probably not changed in nature.
- http://nutrias.org/facts/feverdeaths.htm
- Live on 2014-01-09. A table of "Yellow Fever Deaths in New Orleans, 1817-1905".
- http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab8a.htm
- Dead on 2014-01-09. Archived by the Internet Archive. A Louisiana State Museum article on "Antebellum Louisiana: Disease,Death, and Mourning".
- http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/med/histmed/yellowfever.html
- Dead on 2014-01-09. Judging by the URL, a listing of books in the library of the University of Chicago dealing with yellow fever. The modern equivalent is probably http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/content.php?pid=178321&sid=1519039.
- http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans/death_epid.htm
- Dead on 2014-01-09. Archived by the Internet Archive. "The USGenWeb Project: Louisiana Archives Index: Orleans Parish", "Death Index Reel I {1804 -1876}".
Later in the story, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/yellow/1878ijkl.txt is referred to as a specific page of interest under the USGenWeb death reels. It, too, is dead on 2014-01-09, and archived by the Internet Archive:
Victims of the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic - "I, J, K & L" Orleans Parish
Submitted by: Beth D. Mendel
Source: Official Report of the Deaths from Yellow Fever, as reported by the New Orleans Board of Health // Louisiana Section, Main Branch, New Orleans Public Library
Date: April 2000
A list of specific victims, their age, birthplace, death date and address.