Q. Did the men fire as if they had received a command?
A. It appeared to be a scattered fire. As soon as they commenced firing, I started up on the hill. Some one called out they were firing blank cartridges, and I seen the dust flying around, and I threw myself down like everybody else. There was a man shot within the length of this room from me, and killed—a man named Ray, I think. I then started down hill, and when I was coming down I saw a man on the far side of Twenty-eighth street swing round a freight car, and throw into the company—he threw three or four stones or some missiles in among them, the last, when I was down almost to the track, and I thought every stone I seen throwed, I thought they would fire.
Q. Was it before they had fired?
A. After the firing, he swung around, and seemed to be inviting them, I thought, to do something.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. Inviting the soldiers?
A. It looked as though he was. He was holding on to the iron rod on the car, and was swinging on in front of them. He was a large man, about six feet, very genteelly dressed—more so than the common run of them.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. This man you saw swinging on round there, trying to make an effort to exasperate them?
A. It looked as though he was inviting them.