One witness tells us that "for forty-five minutes the awful noise continued: dull roars, punctuated with the crack crack of the maxims and the snap of one-pounders, the shells shrieking through the air with splinters of them dropping about in an indiscriminate manner."
Kwa sababu ya maoni potofu maelezo mengi yanaangalia zaidi uzito wa mapigano badala ya mafunzo yake. Shahidi mmoja atuambia kuwa "Kwa dakika arobaini na tano kelele za kuogofya/ogopesha ziliendelea: miungurumo ya kuudhi, iliyofutiwa na michakacho ya maxims (bunduki mashine) na mlio wa mtutu mmoja, maganda yakilia hewani na vipandevipande vyake vikidondoka hapa na pale ovyoovyo."