The sun., 1879-05-05
KILLING A THOUSAND ZULUS.
LORD CHELMSFORD'S RELIEF or COL.
PE1RSON'S COMM1ND.
warriors PIunginx Into sheet or Fire, but
Unable TO Make theIr Attack n Hnnd-tO-
Hand FIght-Two Hours of Bloodahed.

warriors PIunginx Into "a sheet of Fire, hut
Unable TO Make their Attack n Hnnd-tO-
Hand FIEht-Two Hours OF Bloodahed.
Ftom NE Lopda, Telegraph
ST. VINCENT, April 22.-The relief OF Col.
Pearson has been ACCOMPLISHED by the column
under the personal command OF Lord Chelms-
ford. After difficult marches. our troops. who
had already been sighted from Ekowc. camped
at Gingihlovo toward sundown on the LIST OF
April. Much rain was falling about dusk and
during the night and il had been signalod
from the Ekowe church tower that tho Iulus
were drawing in upon the Generals position
with very large numbers Lord Chelmsford
had taken every possible precaution against
surprise. The faces Of the camp were covered
with lines OF shelter trenchos the guns posted
at the angles. and all positions OF Importance
covered.
A little before o'clock A. NJ. large masses OF
Zuus began to show nll over the hill tops in our
vicinity on tho northeastern side Of the camp.
The thickets in this direction seemed on sud
den TO swarm with tho enemy. who. with their
usual tactics. were seen pouring in stream OF
shields and black bodios right and left, so as
gradually to envclop this quarter OF our laager.
As soon as their order Of battle was thus form
ed. they came down in n most resoutc style
upon the side OF the camp defended by the Six
brandishing their weapons. Tho foremost por
! tlon of the Rifles were lying inside the trenches
| already mentioned. and their supports behind
| them had second limo OF shelter. ns well as
| tho lhagered wagons. from which to fire. and
the Gatlings were stationed TO the right.
As the enemy drew out OF the grass apd morn
| bushes into a dense semicircle OF advan ring
| warriors. the whole front OF our camp broke
out into sheet OF fierce flame which ran l. from s,
| thing voeys OF frightful close range mus kerry
Nothing, II might be thought, could live before
| loader and yet our gallant though savage foes
crowded their way onward through me nan OF
to the left ~ il 10 flnd some break in the wall
OF nre. their central swarms kept desperately
pressing forward past the fallen bodies OF tholr
comrades. Those behind sprnng to the front
over the corpses OF their fellows. only TO sink TO
tho ground themselves and be succeeded by
fresh desperadoes. II was impossible Tor men
| to perish with moro magnificent contempt OF
death. but they could not quite reach even our
| outer trenches After again and again charging
up 10 within twenty or thirty yards OF the .muz-
zles Of our Martini i-Henris-despitc the wither-
ing tempest Of bullets rainod upon them, TO say
nothing OF the Gatling fire and tho rockets
these heroic sRvagcs gave the game up at last
upon this face Of the camp. leaving the front OF
our deiences piled with dead and wounded
Another large body had meanwhile concen-
tratei on the other flank OF our laager. and lust
MS the first attack was falling second ana tnHsS
spirited attempt 10 rush our postionswAs tried
in this new quarter. III the courage OF the enc
my was admirable, 80 was inc coonessr M, WIN
seventh met the swarms OF yelling thnusands
which closed in toward the trenches This last
effort was led by chief OF high rank named
Dubalmanzi. who was mounted on good horse
and rode in the thick Of his regiments close UT
to the laager The onset was for some minutes
| very formidable. and once inside our lines such
| men might have done anything; but the never
ceasing rattle OF the hreechloaders could not b'
| confronted. and on tho point OF forcing on tina
hand-to- hand fight which they wanted. the dar
ing barbarians melted away again. and finally
abandoned the attack.
A ringing British cheer was raised upon thii
second retreat OF the enemy. and the word wa
given for the mounted troops TO dash out. Thii
was done by the cavalry and Barrow's mountet
infantry, accompanied by some OF tho swift
footed Native Contingent who flew forth iron
the shelter OF the wagons and pursued the nov
disheartaned survivors. Once turned and beat
en-, the Zulu makes no further stand, and in tn
headlong hunt which ensued almost as man
Of tho foe as had fallen before the musketry an'
the ire Of the Gatlings were overtaken and de
spatched in the bush. From the first appear
ance Of Cetywnyo's army upon the hill tops an.
amid the hollows TIL the last fierce blows deal
on the flying savages. the affair d id not occup
two hours. But II was sharp work while II last
ed, and though the British loss in killed wa
only five and in killed and wounded togethe
fifty for all contingents. yet some nine or te
hundred Zuns Law dead around us as the su
rose high Their total loss IL estimated nj nj
teen hundred. with many moro wounded.