railway-hands

Updated: July 22, 2025

At one point experienced railway-hands, not mere ruffian rioters, wrecked the track at a trestle in front of a coming troop train, hurling the engine, with its gallant guard of half a dozen artillerymen, into the depths below, crushing or drowning them like rats.

Charles King - A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike