It was a bitter end to a few frenzied weeks. Worked up into a mob, throngs descended into the center of the city and ransacked the place. Shops were broken into, buildings damaged, railroad beds shredded and upturned, with a towering crescendo of violence leading to an open melee right in the middle of the berg. When it was over, four lay dead or dying, another twenty-five to fifty seriously wounded.
The following day, soldiers, nearly three thousand strong, descended upon the town. Martial law having already been declared, now it would be enforced at times with ruthless dedication. Within five more days, more soldiers had arrived making Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a while, the most heavily guarded place on Earth.
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