Economic Impact
While no complete accounting of the economic losses caused by this strike exists, it is known that the engineers' and firemen's brotherhoods lost approximately $600,000 over the forty-five days of the strike, while for the Burlington Railroad the losses were at least $2,100,000.
In Pittsburgh, it was estimated that property damage reached about five million dollars, with Chicago, Baltimore and other cities facing losses of a similar magnitude.
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