A. About Fifteenth or Sixteenth street. One of them got up on a car and made a speech, and declared that, as near as I could judge from their actions--I could not hear their words--that the Union depot would be the next point affected. Two cars loaded with plunder were got into position and set fire to, and shoved up over the hill and down to the other cars on the other side. As fast as the gang appeared to make an advance, the plunderers kept ahead of them. By Senator Reyburn: Q. Did these men appear to be railroad men? A. No, sir; they were not railroad men. They looked to me like roughs of the lowest description. They had the vilest countenances I ever saw. One man, I noticed, was so intoxicated that he could hardly stand on his legs, but he would go in among the cars and do what a sober man could not do. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Did you make any effort to find out who the black-whiskered man was? A. I recognized him as the leader of the party, and I would know his face again. If I should ever see him, I would recognize him. They appeared determined to drop the burning cars into the depot, and I went down and threw an engine off the track, and blocked the track so that they could not do that. A great many people were around at the time, and it was thought that by the time they reached the depot they would not have the courage to come in there. The police were there, and I did not think that they would undertake to fire it. Q. How many police were there at that time? A. Fifteen or twenty. They retired right in front of the mob. Q. When they reached Union depot, how many did the mob number, that were actually engaged in the burning? A. I cannot answer that. A great many people were around in the vicinity, and in the streets, and on the hill side, and all around--a great many people were there. Q. You spoke of about seventy-five or a hundred? A. They were followed by an army of plunderers. This gang appeared to be the center, and as they went along, the plunderers demolished everything that came in their way. After they found they could not drop any cars into the depot they walked right into the office, at the north end of the depot, and knocked the windows out, and presently there was a flash there, and in a few minutes the shed was on fire. After the depot was fired, I walked to Forty-third street to see how things were going. I returned after the elevator took fire. I saw from that position that it was on fire, and I commenced to have grave doubts whether they could check it--whether they could prevent the lower end of the town from burning. Q. Did this gang of men fire property below the depot, or did that catch from the depot? A. I was not in the vicinity of the depot when the property on the other side was fired, and I cannot answer that, nor when the elevator was fired. By Senator Reyburn: Q. When you came back did you see this same gang?