The soldiers becoming more and more insane, as the foul work went on, opened the veins of some of their victims, and drank their blood as if it were wine.

Some of the burghers were for a time spared, that they might witness the violation of their wives and, daughters, and were then butchered in company with these still more unfortunate victims.

Miracles of brutality were accomplished.

Neither church nor hearth was sacred.

Men were slain, women outraged at the altars, in the streets, in their blazing homes.