Mississippi Railroad. The gang was put into prison for the robbery, and later lynched at Hangman's Crossing outside town. The insolvent Ohio and Mississippi Railroad was reorganized in 1867 as the Ohio and Mississippi Railway. About 1876, a general strike of approximately 500 railroad-men occurred at Seymour and nearby North Vernon, Indiana, led by armed brakemen, engineers and other railroad employees who had not been paid for two and a half months by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. A paper reported that the whole of the communities of Seymour and North Vernon were armed and in revolt. A contingent of US Marshals and detectives were sent from Cincinnati to end the strike. During the strike, all passenger and cargo service through Seymour and North Vernon was suspended. The Ohio and Mississippi Railway was purchased in 1893 by B&O Southwestern Railroad. The town's first high school was built in 1871 on the vacant lot of the disbanded civil war encampment. Frank B Shields, a Seymour native, former MIT professor and inventor of Barbasol shaving cream subsequently donated the land used by the James Shields memorial gym. During the years prior to the turn of the 20th century Seymour saw a significant influx of Dutch and German migrants of the Lutheran faith. These migrants eventually established many successful local farms and businesses. These earlier pioneers' influence continues today and can be seen in the city's annual Oktoberfest celebration. 20th Century Seymour fielded its own minor league team, the Seymour Reds, beginning in 1900. Pee Wee Reese once play with the Seymour Reds before being called up to the majors. The team had their own field, Redlands Park, north of the Shields City Park. Construction concluded and the Seymour Public Library opened to the public in January 1905 following a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Foundation in 1903 led by the Public-School Superintendent and President of the Seymour Public Library Board, Professor H.C. Montgomery. Efforts to bring a library to Seymour began twenty years early in 1881. Early library collections were housed in a local bookshop and then Shields High School until the new Carnegie library opened. The public library was part of more than $2.6 million in grants issued in the state of Indiana for more than 160 libraries: more than any other state. WWI and WWII During the World War I, nine Seymour natives died in combat. Seymour's first municipal