r.d. markell, got out. he was a 67-year-old milk hauler., out of his truck, and went out on the road to remove the obstructions. and someplace along the line, somebody fired a shot. nobody knows which side. and markell was struck in the stomach. he went ahead and removed the obstructions anyway, but then he died within a few hours. schoumacher: sioux city was isolated. on the road, trucks by the hundreds were turned back and rivers of milk ran down roadway ditches, while in the city, strikers distributed gallons of confiscated milk free to the inhabitants. although the iowa strikers were few in numb, their actions were merely the first ripple in an ever-widening sea of protest. roads were picketed in south dakota and nebraska. strikers were beaten and tear-gassed, but they held firm. north dakota organized and the georgia dairymen dumped their milk. six weeks after the sioux city strike began, it was all over. although scattered protests continued throughout the nation, they were faint echoes of the anger that spilled over at sioux city. wh