Tseng Jen-kou, author of a history of Chinhu, relates that in interviewing old folks in the area over 20 years ago, many of his informants recalled that as children they had often heard their elders say that there was not a single survivor in Hsiatsailiao, while only two or three families in Chutaliao managed to come out alive.
著有《金湖春秋》的曾人口，二十多年前採訪當地老一輩，許多老輩都還聽父祖說過，蝦仔寮沒一個倖存，竹達寮只剩兩、三戶。