Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania becomes the site of the…

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania becomes the site of the worst violence.

Thomas Alexander Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, often considered one of the first robber barons, suggests that the strikers should be given "a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread."

However, local law enforcement officers refuse to fire on the strikers.

Nonetheless, his request comes to pass on July 21, when militiamen bayonet and fire on rock-throwing strikers, killing twenty people and wounding twenty-nine others.

Rather than quell the uprising however, this action merely infuriates the strikers, who then force the militiamen to take refuge in a railroad roundhouse, and then set fires that raze thirty-nine buildings and destroy one hundred and four locomotives and twelve hundred and forty-five freight and passenger cars.

On July 22, the militiamen mount an assault on the strikers, shooting their way out of the roundhouse and killing twenty more people on their way out of the city.