Then ensued a sickening scene of slaughter.

Then was committed the massacre, which, had Major Putnam's advice been followed, might have been prevented.

More than fifteen hundred, men, women, and children, were indiscriminately butchered, despite the promises of the "noble" Marquis de Montcalm, and the Indians reveled in a carnival of blood.
It having been reported that the victorious Montcalm intended to march against Fort Edward next, Major Putnam was despatched with his Rangers to "watch the motions of the enemy," and reached the lake shore soon after their departure.

The fort was entirely demolished, he reported to Webb, next day; "the barracks and all buildings were heaps of ruins, the fires still burning, the smoke and stench from which were offensive and suffocating.

Innumerable fragments, human skulls, and bones were still broiling, half consumed, in the smoldering flames.