The greater part of the survivors of the column dispersed into the woods, and made their way in scattered parties to Fort Edward.

Here cannon had been fired at intervals, to serve as a guide to the fugitives, but many, no doubt, perished in the woods.

On the morning after the massacre the Indians left in a body for Montreal, taking with them two hundred prisoners, to be tortured and murdered on their return to their villages.
Few events cast a deeper disgrace on the arms of France than this massacre, committed in defiance of their pledged honour for the safety of their prisoners, and in sight of four thousand French troops, not a man of whom was set in motion to prevent it.

These facts are not taken only from English sources, but from the letters of French officers, and from the journal of the Jesuit Roubaud, who was in charge of the Christianized Indians, who, according to his own account, were no less ferocious and cruel than the unconverted tribes.

The number of those who perished in the massacre is uncertain.