Q. Do you know the number that were killed in that fire?
A. No, sir; I do not.
Q. You know nothing, I suppose, as to the wounded, except those that were brought to the West Penn Hospital?
A. Only just this little boy. I saw from there the attack on the round-house during the night.
By Mr. Reyburn:
Q. Did you see the firing of the cars when it commenced?
A. I saw the whole of that attack.
Q. You might give us a description of that?
A. The grade is down from Thirty-third to Twenty-eighth, and the cars ran from their own gravity. When they were let go they would run. The first car came down between ten and eleven, and it was run down the grade, and when it got opposite the round-house it seemed to run off the track. You could observe it from the hospital grounds. Soon after that a whole train of cars, loaded with coke, came down the track, and struck this first one. We could hear the collision. It stopped near the round-house. They continued the passing down of fired cars from the vicinity of Lawrenceville, until I left the hospital, about two o'clock in the morning, and the cars were burning there, and the sand-house was then on fire, when I left.
Q. From your position you could not see who done the firing?