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Carnegie Dam Exploded. Killed 3000 People?
New information on the 1889 dam explosion that destroyed thousands of lives and homes.
New information on the 1889 Carnegie dam explosion has been found. New sources discovered that the Carnegie explosion was confirmed to have killed over three thousand people, destroyed two-hundred thousand homes, and leveled six square miles of land.
No one knows why the initial numbers where so low but historians around the world are looking for the answer. The news was found when a man was going through records of the explosion and found thousands unread documents about deaths, destroyed homes, and leveled land bringing it up to the number we have today. Nobody knows why the documents were not recorded into the total of the initial numbers.
Andrew Carnegie: The Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie had hired a general manager for his Homestead plant that he mostly ran. The manager, Henry C. Frick, was insisted on cutting down work wages. When Carnegie gave Frick the leeway to do whatever he thought was right, he lowered the wages for the workers. The workers made an effigy of Frick and hung it to protest Frick’s decision. "This is your chance to re-organize the whole affair," Carnegie wrote his manager. "Far too many men required by Amalgamated rules."
“It was a severe miscalculation. Although only 750 of the 3,800 workers at Homestead belonged to the union, 3,000 of them met and voted overwhelmingly to strike. Frick responded by building a fence three miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks plant, adding peepholes for rifles and topping it with barbed wire. Workers named the fence "Fort Frick."” States PBS. If Carnegie never hired Frick there would never be a problem, and especially the fact he gave Frick the ability to do what he wants shows how irresponsible Andrew Carnegie was.
Carnegie Lays off Thousands of Workers
Andrew Carnegies plant Edgar Thomson Steel Works is now composed of non-union workers after the entire plant was laid off and Carnegie rehired only non-union workers. The estimated amount of people who lost their jobs are around 3,000. Men were forced out on the streets without their income. There are more freezing and starving people than ever before. Workers at the plant have also had their wages cut by 40%.
Earlier, Carnegie tried to cut wages by 40% by lowering steel prices. He argued with the Knights of Labor that the cut was necessary because of the price drop. However, this plan was unsuccessful because the KOL dined the cut. Many people are angry about the current situation. There will be a meeting of the workers union to discuss the issue further. |