Q. Yes?
A. There appeared to be a general outpouring from the entire city—every person. They were attracted there from every place.
Q. By curiosity?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. They were lookers-on?
A. They were lookers-on.
Q. Was there a crowd of sympathizers around, immediately around these parties that were engaged in actual riot and arson?
A. There were some that were sympathizers, but so far as my own knowledge went, men of any standing expressed no sympathy with them. A great many of the workingmen felt that the railroad was oppressing these men, and they were in sympathy with them—that is not taking any part in it. There were a great many of our laboring men that were there in their Sunday clothes that were taking no part, but walking around, and a great many of them absolutely appeared to me to be alarmed and frightened. That paralyzed them—not doing anything. I begged of the men, for their own sakes, to try and stop that, and they felt as though their lives were at stake in doing it. They were afraid to say a word; did not know who was their friend or enemy. The men appeared to be going on in a quiet way without saying much to anybody, except this crowd that was before us—we were right in the immediate neighborhood of the burning—as rough a looking set of characters as I ever saw. I have no desire to get amongst such a crowd again very soon.
Q. Were these men laborers or men that you had ever seen in and about Pittsburgh?
A. I could not say that any I saw in the burning were men I ever saw before—could not say that they were men I ever saw before.