A. I have been informed that the officers of the road are yet engaged in making up a full statement of the losses of the company, and any estimate I might make would be so entirely unreliable that, if it is important to the committee, I prefer sending for those who have that subject in charge. Q. Can you give the extent of the burning, the destruction of property in general? A. My statement would be simply from observation--that the burning of property commenced at or very near the station of Lawrenceville. Q. How far from the Union depot? A. I would suppose a mile and a quarter or a mile and a half. That is an estimate. I do not know, I may be wrong about that. It is the second stopping place out from the Union depot. The destruction on the track, of cars that were there, and buildings extending from Lawrenceville all along past the Union depot and embracing property of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company, on Seventh street, in this city, the number of cars burnt, the number of locomotives destroyed or disabled, the value of the goods in those cars, and the value of the buildings that were destroyed, and the injury done on the road are all matters of computation upon which my estimate would not be worth anything. It will have to be obtained from actual examination of those who inspected them. By Mr. Means: Q. Was the first burning of cars or of buildings? A. I cannot say, except as a matter of public information. I was not present. I have already stated I was at Shady Side on Saturday evening, when the fire commenced. Q. Have you any knowledge about what time that fire commenced? A. I saw the light in the evening about nine or ten o'clock, and sent my son in to ascertain the state of things. Q. Of your own knowledge you do not know whether it was a car that was first burned or a building? A. Of my own knowledge I cannot say at what point the fire began, or by whom it was kindled. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Can you state of your own knowledge what classes of men composed the rioters during the burning. Whether the mob was composed of railroad employés or of others than those, and if of others, of what class? A. That would be in part my personal knowledge, but I could not give an answer to that without confounding together my personal knowledge and matters of information. I will give the result, if you wish it. Q. State it?