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...night last week, Irwin ("Pants") Paschon, the line's striking head timekeeper, got a telephone call at his Peoria home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
Five of the pickets fell. One was Arthur Browne, a striking engineer. He was dead. Another was Pants Paschon. He was dead. The others were seriously wounded. All but one had been hit in the back or side...
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