Q. Is that on Liberty street?
A. Yes; the track is on top of the wall until you come to a little piece on this side of Twenty-sixth street, and then it comes down and gets level with the payment—between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets it begins to get on a level with the payment. These cars were stopped between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. One fireman told me—a fireman of Engine Company 8, in Philadelphia—that he got the water ready to throw, or was handling the line, when he said there was a car loaded with liquor in it burning, and it ran down into the cellar of the round-house, or the shop on the other side, and that that was what drove them out so that they could not do anything. When that liquor, burning, ran down into the cellar, it set the buildings on fire.
Q. Did any of your engines play on the fire on the railroad?
A. No; they would not let us. And we had as much as we could do after the fire started. As fast as the fire would come along we would move the engines down.
Q. How many engines had you?
A. Eleven of my own, and the chief engineer of Allegheny came over and fetched me three.
Q. They would not allow you to play on the railroad property.
A. No.
Q. Did you ask protection from the mayor?
A. I do not know that I saw him but once. He and Roger O'Mara came up Penn street in a buggy, and turned out Liberty, and then O'Mara came back some way without the mayor.