The wretched militiamen found that their machine-guns had been tampered with, and that the cartridges from the captured magazines did not fit their rifles.

They hoisted the white flag of surrender, but it was ignored.

There were no survivors.
The entire six thousand were annihilated.

Common shell and shrapnel were thrown in upon them from a distance, and, when, in their desperation, they charged the encircling lines, they were mowed down by the machine-guns.

I talked with an eye-witness, and he said that the nearest any militiaman approached the machine-guns was a hundred and fifty yards.