"California names May 10 Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Day"
"California names May 10 Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Day", © GBTimes Beijing, 5/9/2017. (News Article)
"The California state assembly on Sunday named May 10 as the California Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Day.
... nearly 1,200 [sic] Chinese workers are known to have been killed while working in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the most difficult part of the project. ... " [More]
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posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 7:25 PM
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Bones of 50, not 1,200 Chinese railroad workers were most likely being returned to China on that 1870 train, and these were not only from the Sierra Nevada mountains portion of the railroad.
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