By that time the bed of the shallow stream was well filled with fallen horses and dead warriors.
Forsyth ordered meat cut from the bodies of his dead horses and buried in the wet sand so that it might keep as long as possible.

Lieutenant Beecher, his chief of scouts, was killed, as also were Surgeon Mooers, and Scouts Smith, Chalmers, Wilson, Farley, and Day.

Seventeen others of the party were wounded, some severely.

Forsyth himself was shot three times, once in the head.

His left leg was broken below the knee, and his right thigh was ripped up by a rifle ball, which caused him extreme pain.