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Strike at California rail yards erupts into deadly derailment
Sacramento and Oakland battle lines flare as railroad strikers sabotage rails near the depot. Regular troops, cavalry, and marines clear the yard after a derailment kills engineer Clark and three soldiers. Union leaders denounce the act while investigations arrest several suspects and vows of further action spread.
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Sacramento
Steamera Alameda
Acme
Y Street Levee
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Graham
Fillmore
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San Francisco
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Freman
Sam Reynolds
Battery L
5Th Artillery
Clark
Harry Knox
American Railway Union
Davisville
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D. Worden
A. G. Green
William Burt
H. E. Bender
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Ofivera
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O'Keefe
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Alameda
Navy Yard
Superine Tandent Fillmore
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Worten
Jurove Worden
Southern Pacific Company
Los Anceres
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Avameos
Atrikera
Wasaixoron
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Cleveland
O'Neil
Chicago
Union Tachivists
American Federation of Labor
American Rederation of Labor
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