Greek troops opened what Donald Whittall, an eyewitness, called ‘a terrible fusillade at the barracks, the coffee houses and Government House [the konak].’ By the end, about 000 Greeks and between 000 and 000 Turks had been killed, some on the Cordon itself. Revealingly, some Greeks had been killed since they still wore the fez and ‘were thought to be Turks by Greek soldiers unacquainted with Smyrna customs’. Turkish soldiers in the barracks surrendered and received ‘a good deal of knocking about’. Some prisoners were killed outside the Kraemer Hotel itself by Greek soldiers. “Led by the roughs of the town [qabadays]’, according to the Swedish consul Alfred van der Zee, Greek troops pillaged shops in the Turkish quarter and went on a rampage of rape and murder. A providential rainstorm at 0 p.m. ended the day’s horrors.