Q. Was there trouble talked of—rumors in the street that there would be a resistance to the soldiers?
A. No, sir; I didn't think there was any talk of resistance. There was talk of trouble. The rioters seemed to be taking the ground that they had a right to stop there, so long as they did not interfere with the trains, and the military undertook to clear the track; and do not think if the military had cleared the mob who had actively obstructed them, that the trouble would not have been so great as it was. Firing into these people who were on the hillside, and not participating in the riot, I think, considerably aggravated the trouble, from my observation.
Q. You were not there when the firing took place?
A. No, sir.
Q. Do you know that the mob did not fire—that, at least, the soldiers did not fire on the mob in front of them?
A. That was the information, and I believe that was the fact, that they fired on the hill-side, and not on the strikers.
Q. How many people were killed and wounded upon the hill-side?
A. I think there is a list there that was tolerably accurate at the time. I cannot vouch for its absolute accuracy. You refer to the number killed on the hill-side?
Q. Yes.
A. I could not tell that. This boy, there mentioned, was shot on the hill-side, and I heard of a number of others. I cannot exactly re-call them. That list merely embraces the total number.