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Homestead Mill Trial by Fire and Flame Test
An eyewitness recounts a brutal shift at the Homestead steel mill. The heat, smoke, and roaring converters overwhelm him as a co worker is badly burned. he endures hours of exhaustion and pain, questioning survival after a day of extreme labor.
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Gud
Fred
Jon M. Egan
Eugene
Southern Minnesota Railroad
Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Pacific Coast
Mr. Egan
St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba
Chicago, St. Paul
Kansas City
General Managers’ Association
Eugene V. Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
Vandalix
Terre Bante
Daniel Voorhees
United States
Debs
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
United Order of Railway Emloyees
American Railway Union