A. I do not see how they were going to stop the troops coming to Allegheny City, unless they threw them off the track.
Q. Was not that the arrangement—to throw them off the track to prevent their arrival?
A. No.
Q. Did not a party come down armed to prevent the troops from coming in?
A. No; they did not. Men were stationed as far as Sewickley. I suppose some had guns or revolvers.
Q. Strikers?
A. Men in sympathy with the strikers.
Q. What were they stationed along there for?
A. I suppose they wanted to know what was coming up along the road, or something of that kind. We did not know what was going to happen. They thought that maybe some soldiers might be coming up along the road. We would have known it then if the soldiers had come. They could not have got to Homewood unless we would have known it.
Q. Why?