A. He deemed it more important to keep the command together than to separate them.
Q. Did you make any application to the mayor or sheriff of the county for aid?
A. No; we did not need it until after the riot. It was only from the desire to protect our men who were willing to work. And I had been advised on Monday or Tuesday of some incendiary speech, made among the miners, and I looked for some trouble among them.
Q. Was any of the property of the Allegheny Valley railroad destroyed?
A. Nothing but a baggage car at Union depot and the tracks running in front of the round-house where we approached Union depot.
Q. Had you any number of cars there at the time the burning occurred?
A. I think we had about two hundred south of Forty-third street.
Q. Were any of them laden with freight?
A. Some with ore; the merchandise cars I removed Sunday night myself. Word was sent to me that the men were going to burn the freight station.
Q. Were you interfered with in any way?