Shamokin Northumberland Pennsylvania United States
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One thousand men and boys, many of them coal miners, march to the Reading Railroad Depot in Shamokin, Pennsylvania on July 25, in what becomes known as the 1877 Shamokin Uprising.
They loot the depot when the town announces it will only pay them a dollar a day for emergency public employment.
The mayor, who owns coal mines, forms a vigilante group that is responsible for two out of fourteen civilian shooting casualties.