Q. You were not on duty during the firing?
A. No; that took place before we went on duty.
Q. How large was the crowd?
A. They began to come—three or four hundred—or two hundred—squads coming from different places all during Saturday night and Sunday morning. Nearly everybody in the city was in that neighborhood—or the biggest part of them.
Q. What time did the burning commence?
A. In the neighborhood of ten and half or a quarter to eleven o'clock. A crowd had congregated around the fire-alarm box, and would not let the men pull it.
Q. Where did the fire break out first?
A. I was about Twenty-eighth street when it broke out. I should judge between Thirty-first and Thirty-second street on the railroad.
Q. What was set on fire?
A. Oil, from the appearance of the smoke.