Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

Q. Before you were woundedf
A. did not see any.
O. Were you in position to SEQ If there had
A Yes, SIR Well, We came right on down.
.n9 g hOe.y Do you know who the officers were on
A. The captain was Rogers.
Q. Who was the pilotf
L was not acquainted with him, heard
his name. I did not know the engineer.
He Was to Be a watchman.
q. What did you understand your position
to be-what were you to do for Captain
Rogerss
A. A watchman on one Of the towboats.
O. A position that you are familiar enough
with to dllf
O. We're you given any weapons or arms,
or told to use them at any time?
A. No, sir; after the first shooting in the
Down Sg by the si big ice @ chest est The decHSsnds @ IDS
and the boys sat down there and we said
they could not shoot through there; it was
packed FULL Of ice. One Of the menJ don't
tenant-came out with the guns then.
A good many Of the men had no guns
and the fellow said to mo: "Why don't
Gd Il don's ImS have % to have guns. And he said:
you have no business here then" said:
II did not come here to fight. and don't
want to shoot without have to protect my
yolver and put it in my pocket. Inever
fired a shot.
O. This was all after you were attacked
and shot at?
but before myself was wounded. Before
we tarted up to Port Perry.
@. When the gang plank was put out was
there any firing Oft the boat by the men
with arms into the crowd gathered on the
hill?
A. think not.
9. L mean the people on the boat putting
A. They put the gangway out themselves,
and they had no boisterous words among
any of them. As soon as made the line
fast, just ran over the head Of one of the
barges and on to the other and in the door.
1t was pretty heavy.
Q. Were you in a position from the top of
the barses to see back into the mill proper
A. Well, no. You could not see into the
high bank. You could not see anything.
Q. Could you see this tower?
A. Yes, sir.
Scattering Shots Were Fired.
Q. Was there any person there apparently
A. Well, I saw a half dozen or so from the
aft end of the barge. We just looked ont
occasionally. We could not see steady, and
these detectives stood there, they did not
Q. Were there parties shooting at that
time from the bankf
A There was few scattering shots. Not
many shots were fired.
@. Toward the boatf
A. Toward the boat, yes sir.
Q. Was there any threatening language
you could distinguish at all from the bank?
A. ave will kill you." they said.
@. Were there that kind Of remarks made7
A. Oh, yes. When we were coming down
from Port Perr they were rolling oil barrels
down from the bank, calculating they would
float down and burn the bargeS.
Steady Shooting From the Bank.
@. How long was the volley OF shooting
that you saw and heard?
A. 1t was half an hour. The heaviest
shooting was when we were coming down.
1 do not know whether they were shooting
at the barges.. At that time there was no
body on the boat with guns. We did not
have guu on the boat.
Q. There was not gun on the boat?
A. There was one OF the Pinkerton men
with us to help carry the wounded but he
did not have any gun. He had pistol in
his belt then, but did not see him using 1t.
Q. Do you remember whether there was
an American flag on your boat at that time?
A. Why, just stood down on the stairs
the foot Of the statrs-and Captain Rogers
and some more were up on the deck and
went and got this flag and put it up.
Q. Coming down with the boat2
A. Coming down. before we got there.
@. From Port Perry?
A. From Port Perry.
@. And the volley of shots came ont
A. was on the lower deck, and when
they came down they put up q long pole
back on the stern to put another nag on,
and made the remark, "We're all right
now with the American flag" and the vol
ley of shooting was still kept up. The first
men chat got off on the gang plank had no
muskets or guns
@. Did you understand from any converse
tion that you heard on the boats that there
was any intended violence going to be done7
A. heard several of these men talking,
but they would not talk much either. They
said they were not going there to prote 1t
scao labor. All they were going for was to
protect property.