Q. Did any one sign that paper setting forth their grievances?
A. Only I had a meeting with them. I wrote down what they wanted.
Q. You wrote that down yourself?
A. They would not permit anybody, they had confidence in me or they wouldn't have entrusted me. They saw I was disposed to do what was right. I acted prudently with them.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. Were any of the strikers, that is the railroad employés, who first struck, engaged in this arson, burning, and pillaging?
A. The persons whom I saw engaged in this arson business, and the crowd that I addressed on Sunday were rioters. They appeared to me to be all strangers. They were not really citizens of Pittsburgh. They appeared to me to be all strangers. There was no strikers. I saw none of the strikers that I knew, whose countenances I would remember amongst the rioters. They appeared to keep aloof. They appeared to keep away, and when we wanted to find them or have any conversation with them, we had our meeting down at their place. The bishop and the delegation of citizens from this committee of public safety, went down to meet them away down at their head-quarters, at Twenty-eighth street, where we had a conference with them. They were perfectly powerless, yet disposed to do all they could to save the property and suppress the riot.
Q. Who were the men engaged in this arson and burning?
A. That is more than I can tell you who they were. They appeared to be a class of men I had never seen before.
Q. Were they mill men?