According to the accounts of 128 eye-witnesses , Federal soldiers deliberately and arbitrarily attacked Attack civilians and civilian dwellings in Samashki by shooting residents and burning houses with flame-throwers .

Roger Thompson , in his article about Yuxian , the supposed `` Butcher of Shanxi '' , found Know that there were no eye-witnesses accounts and that both the missionary sources and the Chinese official reports hide Hiding_objects the full truth .