A. I saw the first of it—the first torch applied to the first car.
Q. Where was that car standing?
A. Beyond the round-house. And I thought they had an engine up there. They would fire one car and start it, and fire another car and start it, and fire another car and start it.
Q. Can you give us the street where it was?
A. I think they were all above Twenty-eighth street—the cars that were started.
Q. You thought they had an engine to start the cars?
A. I thought so—either that or a large gang of men. They started so rapidly.
Q. When those cars came down, where did they stop after they were started?
A. They came down—the whole yard was packed with cars down below the round-house, and they had the switches so arranged that they ran down to the round-house. They were trying to burn out the soldiers. It was very plain what their motive was.
Q. The motive, at first, was not to destroy the railroad company's property, but to burn out the soldiers?