A. Yes.
Q. Do you know how many cars were destroyed?
A. I have not got the number at the end of my fingers, but it is in the annual report of the company. It is all stated there, sir. I think it is summed up in that report, that the probable loss, by reason of this trouble, was about $5,000,000 to our company and to the community at large in Pittsburgh and the community elsewhere owning property in transit.
Q. In consequence of the riot that existed there?
A. Yes.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. That includes the merchandise?
A. Yes; it is an estimated amount of what we thought about the right thing—as near as we could get at it.
By Mr. Means:
Q. Did General Brinton telegraph you at Blairsville Junction that he, General Brinton, could clear the tracks with the force under his command?