(Signed)
J. F. Hartranft,
Governor.
He did not confine it to Pittsburgh, but called for the whole power of the United States to put it down.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. It was not on railroads?
A. It got into coal and everything. It struck labor. They found when you hit the mills it was only local; but when you struck the railroads it struck everybody. I will furnish you files of the papers. Also the official report of the coroner, and the testimony taken before him, and the number of people killed on Saturday.
Q. You have the official report of the coroner in the files?
A. Yes. The first fire there were ten people killed outright, and there were some sixty or seventy wounded—I have the names of all of them. The first fire the people were killed that had no right to be killed—the fire of Saturday night. Anybody that was killed after Saturday night had a right to be killed; but it is a very dangerous doctrine—judges have to charge that—that everybody is constructively a mob that is then around, but that won't do in the United States, to charge that everybody is a mob.
Colonel Gray, re-called: