Q. Thought there was too big a crowd to get through?
A. I didn't feel like it.
Q. You were ready to go if the track was clear?
A. Yes; oh, yes.
Q. Had you heard, prior to your information at Walls, anything about the strike?
A. Never had the least intimation, because I do not think it was a pre-arranged matter at all. It did not seem to me that anybody seemed to know. No; I knew nothing about it, and nobody else seemed to know anything about it. The order was given on Wednesday, I think, that all trains would be run double from Thursday. That seemed to be a kind of sticker on some of them. They didn't care much whether they started or not, and some of them that morning, on the eight-forty train, refused to go out. They didn't care whether they went out or not, and just quit.
Q. There had been no pre-arranged plan for a strike to take place at that time?
A. Not that I had ever heard of.
Q. Had there been any arrangement made for a strike at or near that time?
A. Not to my knowledge. Not among the engineers, or so far as I know.