Q. Was there any resistance in the city of Allegheny to your passage through the city?
A. No, sir.
Q. By the rioters or strikers?
A. No, sir; they received me very kindly. They cheered me. I would not say they were rioters, but they were the strikers connected with the road.
Q. They were blockading freight, or holding freight trains, at that time in Allegheny city?
A. Yes; but there was no destruction of property. Mr. R. A. Ammon sent the following dispatch to me as I was coming into Pittsburgh. I received it about fifty or one hundred miles out of Pittsburgh: "We bid you welcome home, and assure you a safe passage over Fort Wayne road." He was very prominent at the depot when I arrived, and I did not see any other person that assumed to have any authority over the road when I arrived.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Will you please state who this R. A. Ammon is?
A. I saw him that day, and have never seen him since.
Q. Was he a railroad official, or was he one of the strikers?