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September 26

The Old 97, a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, derails near Danville, Va., killing engineer Joseph ?Steve? Broady and ten other railroad and postal workers.

September 26

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Sept 23

The Workingman's Advocate of Chicago publishes the first installment of The Other Side, by Martin A. Foran, president of the Coopers' International Union. Believed to be the first novel by a trade union leader and some say the first working-class novel ever published in the U.S. ? 1868

Sept 23

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Sept 21

Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners strike - 1896

Sept 21