[Little Bill]

Don’t be facetious, if you noticed the bodies were laid out in a single line, one body deep. If this was battle field sanitation, a term from my youth, they would have been dumped in a hole to keep the smell down.

[SunkenCiv]

It was definitely a mass burial, could have been some plague, but the details in the story I think make clear that these were healthy people who got the ol’ one-two.