September 1900 - September 21, 1900 (Friday)

September 21, 1900 (Friday)

  • The coal miners' strike had its first casualties, as the sheriff of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and his posse fired into a mob of strikers at Shenandoah. A man and a little girl were killed and six people were wounded, and units of the Pennsylvania National Guard were sent out to stop the violence.

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