A. We knew perfectly that No. 18 was carrying signals for the southward. It is the Erie night express, due in Allegheny at eleven o'clock.
Q. Who stationed those men along the road at Sewickley?
A. I suppose they walked down themselves.
Q. Who stationed them there? Who gave them orders to go there and occupy those positions?
A. I do not know that anybody gave them orders to occupy positions along the road, or to fire into trains, or anything of that kind. Men were sent down the road to watch everything.
Q. Sent by the strikers, were they?
A. Yes.
Q. What were they to watch—what instructions were they given?
A. If the troops were coming up we wanted to know something about it. We did not have engines to fire up and the water had run out, and so those men were stationed down there. Some had arms and some had not. If the troops came up and disembarked at Sewickley, or east of Sewickley, we would know it, by their discharging their pieces, that the troops had disembarked.
Q. They were to fire off their pieces as a signal?