[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] three days the carnage continued, and at its close " full fifty" of the Dutch had been " murdered and put to death; over one hundred, mostly women and children," were in captivity; " twenty bouweries and a number of plantations" had been burned with " full twelve to fifteen hundred "skepels of grain," and five or six hundred head of cattle either killed or driven ofF. In addition to those killed and captured, three hundred colonists were ruined in estate, and the aggregated damages were com puted at two hundred thousand guilders or eighty thousand dollars. At the time of this occurrence, Director Stuyvesant, who had succeeded Kieft, was absent with his soldiers on an expedi tion to South river, and a messenger was immediately sent for his return. Meanwhile, as the tidings of the disaster spread, the disagrees with all of his contemporaries, 1 Neither Van Dyck nor Leendertsen and was apparently determined to give appear to have been killed, good reason for the great fright which he 2 Opinion of Fiscal Van Tienhoven, suffered. (fCallaghans Indian War of 1655, 40. OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 123 inhabitants fled in terror to the fort as to a city of refuge. The English villages on Long Island sent word that the Indians had threatened to kill the Dutch who resided there, and that the English themselves would share the same fate if they offered any assistance to the Manhattans, even to the extent of sending them food. Lady Moody's house at Gravesend was again at tacked.