Q. What was said to the strikers that you found, and what did the strikers say?
A. Those who were found disclaimed any sympathy with the riot, and they were appealed to do what they could to suppress it.
Q. Did they seem willing to help in suppressing the arson and riot that was then going on?
A. They made no motion in that direction, but there were very few—they were so scattered here and there. So far as I could see, all that was accomplished by that committee was to direct the attention of the few to the efforts that were going on in the city to organize a force. The character of the rioters appeared to me to be such as belonged to people habitually in Pittsburgh. I saw no evidence of their being strangers.
Q. What class of people were they?
A. By their dress and language, they were laborers.
Q. Laborers from the factories, and rolling-mills, &c.?
A. I should think so. Yes, sir.
Q. Were there no railroad employés that were actually engaged in the arson and burning and riot?
A. I recognized none whom I knew as railroad employés, but it was evident that somebody that understood the management of engines were there, and the crowd was not wholly confined to those whose dress looked like laboring men. They seemed to have no wish to injure anything but the railroad, and clamored to know whether any proposition came directly from the chief of the road, Mr. Scott, and when they found no such proposition was to be given to them, they would not listen to any other.