Suddenly the ominous war-cries broke out, and before the troops could turn to face the foe a storm of bullets had swept their left flank.

Then the warriors dashed from their ambush, tomahawking the living and scalping both dead and dying.
In a few minutes five officers and seventy-six of the rank and file were killed and eight wounded, and out of a force of over one hundred men only twenty escaped unhurt.

The news of this second disaster brought Major Wilkins up from Fort Niagara, with every available man, to chastise the Indians.

But when Wilkins and his men arrived at the gruesome scene of the massacre not a red man was to be found.

The Indians had disappeared into the forest, after having stripped their victims even of clothing.