On this day 105 years ago, a strike by local steel workers resulted in deadly violence. On September 9, 1919, someone fired on a crowd of Standard Steel Car Company workers striking as part of the ...

DRAMATIC CHANGES IN RAW MATERIALS: Iron ore -- Coal and coke -- TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS IN STEELMAKING FACILITIES: Blast furnaces -- Open hearth -- Electric furnace -- The basic oxygen process -- ...

On Sept. 9, 1919, four men were killed and 64 were injured after police and security guards fired shots into a striking crowd where Columbia Avenue and Highland Street intersect in Hammond.