Q. The railroad shops?
A. Yes; during the day of Sunday, there was a good deal of excitement on the street here, on Penn street, and a great many people congregated out about the corner of Sixth and Penn and Seventh and Penn.
Q. What class of people generally gathered?
A. They were mostly workingmen, men thrown out of employment.
Q. Men from the manufacturing establishments?
A. Manufacturing, yes, sir; mechanics and laboring classes, principally.
Q. How large a number assembled?
A. I presume I saw as many as fifty to seventy-five, probably one hundred at times during the day on Sunday.
Q. What day was the railroad bridge across the Schuylkill burned?
A. It was burned that same night.