American Labour War.
SEIZING A TRAIN A DESPERATE FIGHT. 15 RIOTERS AND ONE WOMAN SHOT. THE POLICE REPULSED. [pee tbess ASSOCIATION, i j Washington, May 5. A Coxeyite band at Tacoma seized a train. One hundred masrhats followed and eventually recaptured it. j The wives of the strikers at Scot ! Trale tried to intimidate the fi rein en. j The police were called out and fired in the air. The strikers intervened and a desperate fight took place, in which fifteen of the strikers and one woman were shot. The police were repulsed, but rallied and arrested many of the rioters.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 307, 7 May 1894, Page 2
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101American Labour War. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 307, 7 May 1894, Page 2
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