Only a small percentage of the Wyoming force was left, and it now broke.

Colonel Butler and Colonel Dennison, who were mounted, reached the fort.

Some of the men jumped into the river, swam to the other shore and escaped.

Some swam to a little island called Monocacy, and hid, but the Tories and Indians hunted them out and slew them.

One Tory found his brother there, and killed him with his own hand, a deed of unspeakable horror that is yet mentioned by the people of that region.