 Next Wagner set out to cut the telephone lines to the village, but as the poles looked too high to him and due to heavy rain that had set in by that time, he dropped that part of his plan and immediately went into Mühlhausen, where he set fire to four barns.The lower part of his face hidden with the veil he began walking through the streets, shooting at any male person that crossed his path.Wagner later claimed that his female victims were accidentally hit.