"What do you want?" said Governor Semple.
"We want our fort," said Boucher, meaning the fort Semple had destroyed.
"Go to your fort," said the Governor.
"Why did you destroy our fort, you rascal?" Boucher demanded.
"Scoundrel, do you tell me so?" the Governor replied, and ordered the man's arrest.
Some say he caught at Boucher's gun. But Boucher slipped off his horse, and on the instant a gun was fired, and a Hudson Bay clerk fell dead. Another shot wounded Governor Semple, and he called to his followers.
"Do what you can to take care of yourselves."
Then there was a volley from the Northwest force, and with the clearing of the smoke it looked as though all the Governor's party were killed or wounded. Instead of taking care of themselves, they had rallied around their wounded leader. Captain Rogers, of the Governor's party, who had fallen, rose to his feet, and ran towards the enemy crying for mercy in English and broken French, when Thomas McKay, a "breed" and Northwest clerk, shot him through the head, another cutting his body open with a knife.
Cuthbert Grant (who, it was charged, had shot Governor Semple) now went to the Governor, while the others despatched the wounded.