This Day…

Posted on by Chris Enss

1877 – The lumberyard near the docks of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in San Francisco is set ablaze, and firemen come under attack by rioters.  Several men are killed and many injured.  The steamship company and the Central Pacific Railroad are chiefly blamed for the large influx of Chinese into the city.  The state militia is mobilized as federal gunboats stand by.