Q. Could it have been done by doing some shooting?
A. If they had shot everybody that came they couldn't have got on.
Q. Could a skirmish line have maintained its position and kept the crowd back?
A. I don't think they could by shooting, for the reason men, women, and children would come in, and they couldn't have kept it clear—not kept the whole track clear.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. The reason I asked him that, was that he said the companies marched over on the railroad and they would fall in behind. I want to know if the military had been deployed with two skirmish lines, why they couldn't have kept the crowd away?
A. There was too many people.
Q. Were the people armed?
A. No, sir; not that I saw. They all might have had revolvers and such things as that, but they had no guns.
Q. Did all that crowd appear to be violent and riotous, or were there a great many there that were simply there out of curiosity?