Complex sentence: They spent the rest of the day destroying much of the village, destroying, according to one of Church's dispatches, 60 houses, 6 mills, and many barns, along with about 70 cattle.
Split into simpler sentences: They spent the rest of the day destroying much of the village. According to one of Church's dispatches, they destroyed 60 houses, 6 mills, and many barns, along with about 70 cattle.