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Cedar Rapids Times

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 02, 1877

Page

3

Turbulent unrest fades as workers strike for higher pay

The article recounts lingering unrest with mobs and riots quelled by volunteers and the military. Major rail centers including St Louis Burlington Council Bluffs McGregor Fort Dodge and Clinton faced stoppages. Workers demanded higher wages and offered to guard property. operations resumed with little violence and normal activity returning in a few days. The tone notes decency and order and predicts crops and business will move forward as usual.

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Debris and looting scenes from a city after massive arson

A Pittsburgh letter describes 102 locomotives burned in roundhouses at $15 000 to $25 000 each and 3000 freight cars lost. It sketches the Gre scene from Grant Street to streets two miles away with debris covering 1 to 40 acres. Witnesses recount astonishing thefts and chaotic street scenes as fires and chaos sprawl.

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