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Title
For the Summit Division
Institution
Peter White Public Library

Subject
Railroad -- Employees

Subject
Railroad construction & maintenance

Item Number
AB01a147

Type
text

Description
A special train passed through the city at midnight Thursday with 200 laborers for F. C. O'Reilly & Company camps on the Summit divison of the DSS&A. The men came from Cincinnati, Ohio and were under the charge of E. L. P. Wetmore, of this city who went down to bring them up. Many of the 200 were colored. The special train took them to Baraga and from there they will strike in to the line of the road. There are now about 2,500 men at work on the summit divison, mostly Italians.

For the Summit Division

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