A. A considerable distance below the round-house. Q. How many men were engaged in burning and running down the cars then? A. A great many of them. Q. Two or three hundred? A. Yes; more than that. Q. How many policemen would it have taken to have driven them away at that time? A. I do not think there were enough in the city at that time. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Did the sheriff command the mob to disperse before the firing? A. I believe he did; but I was not up with him the first time he was up. Q. What effort was made by the sheriff and his posse, or deputies, to clear the track before the military came up? A. They tried to get them off the track--they talked to some of them, but they appeared to want to get at the military. When we got to the crossing, part of the party got away, and that is how a part of the mob got in between us and the military. Q. Were you close to the military when the firing commenced? A. Within ten or twelve feet, I think. Q. Did you hear any command given to fire? A. None whatever. Q. If there had been a command given you would have heard it? A. I think so--I was close enough. There appeared to be a good deal of noise going on at the time. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. You were not with the sheriff on Friday night when he went up to Twenty-eighth street? A. No. Q. Do you know whether he made any effort that night to raise a posse or not? A. I do not know of my own knowledge. I was not in the city on Friday night? Q. Did you see the crowd on Saturday morning? A. Yes. Q. How large was it on Saturday morning? A. A great many people were there. Q. Do you think a well organized police force would have been able to have driven away the crowd on Saturday morning? A. I do not know about that. It would have depended on circumstances altogether. It would have taken a pretty good force to have driven them away. Q. Do you think it would have been possible to have gathered a posse in and about the city--if the sheriff had started out on Saturday morning and made an effort, could he have collected a posse sufficiently large to have driven away the crowd? A. The Saturday morning we were out? Q. By sending out deputies through the county, do you think he could have collected a posse, or not? A. If all were of the same opinion as the people in town, I do not think he could have got a posse. It would have been pretty hard work. Q. How was the feeling outside the city, so far as you know? A. Outside I do not know. In the city, the feeling appeared to be with the strikers altogether. Q. Here in the city? A. Yes. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Do you say all the citizens? A. No; I do not say that; but those I had any conversation with--those men I tried to get to go up there. * * * * * Soloman Coulson, _sworn with the uplifted hand_: By Mr. Lindsey: Q. What is your occupation?