The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-05-13

ne St1m pS Cd the UOxeS - the CuSs
cost Is. l60. being a saving Of more
than 5000.
KILLING A THOUSAND zULUs.
From a London Telegraph.
st. Vincent. April 22.-The relief
Of Col. Pearson has been accomplished
BY the column under the per%,aal
command of Lord Chelmsford. After
difficult marches. our troops. who had
already been sighted from EkOwe.
camped at GingihIove toward sun
down on the lst Of April. Much rain
was falling about dusk and during the
night. and it had been signsIled from
the EkOwe church tower that the
Zulus were drawing in upon the Gen
erals position with very large num-
bers. lord Chelmsford had taken
every p's-ihle precauti"n against sur
prise. The faces Of the camp
were covered with lines If shelter
trenches; the guns posted at the
angles. aud all Positions Of Importance
covered.
A little before 6 O'Clock 4. NJ. large
masses Of Zulus began to show ali over
the hill tops in cur vicinity ON the
northeastern side Of the camp. The
thickets in this direction seemed Oh .
sudden to swarm with the enemy,
who. with their usual tactics. were
seen pouring in stream of shields
and black bodies, right and left. 50 as
gradually to enveloP this quarter Of
our lager. As SION ne their order Of
hattie was thus formed, they came
down in a most resnlute style upon
the side If the camp defended by the
Sixtieth Rifles. raising their curious
war crv and brandishing their weapons
The foremost portion Of the Rifles
were lying inside the trenches already
mentioned. and their supports behind
them had q second line Of shelter, as
we'll as laagered wagons. from which
to fire, and the Gatlings were stationed
to the right.
As the enemy drew out Of the grass
and thorn bushes into Q dense semi
circle Of advancing warriors. the
whole front of our camp broke out in
to a sheet Of fierce fame which ran
from corner to corner without inter.
mission. in rattling volleys ola fright
full close range musketry. Nothing.
it might be thought. could live before
this terrible aud perpetual roll of the
breach loader. and vet our gallant
though savage foes crowded their
way onward through the hail Of
death. While spreading now to the
right. now to left. rs if to find some
break in the wall of FIRE, their central
swarms kept desperately pressing
forward past the fallen bodies of their
comrades. Thnse behind sprang to
the front over the corpses of their
fellows, only to sink to the ground
themselves and he succeeded by fresh
desperadoes. 1t was impossible for
men to perish with more magnificent
contempt Of death, but they could not
quite reach even our outer trenches.
After again and again charging up to
within twenty or thirty yards of the
muzzles Of our Martini Henris-des.
pite the whitening tempest OF bullets
rained upon them, to say nothing Of
the Calling fire and the rockets
these heroic savages gave the game
up at last upon this face If the camp.
leaving the front of our defences piled
with dead and wounded,
Another large boiy had meanwhile
concentrated on the other flank of our
laager, and just As the first attack Was
failing second and most spirited at
tempt to rush our positions WAS tried
in this new quarter. II the courage
Of the enemy Was admirable, SD was
the coolness with which the men Of
the Ninety-frst and Fiity-seventh met
the swarms Of yelling thousands which
closed in toward the trenches. This
last effort was led BY a chief Of high
rank named Dubalmanzi, who was
mounted on good horse, and rode
iu the thick of his regiments close up
to the laager. Tue outset was for
some minutes very formidable. ard
once inside our lines such men might
have done anything; but the never
ceasing rattle of the breechIoaders
could not be confronted, and On the
point of forcing on that hand-to hand
fight which they wanted, the daring
barbarians melted away again, and
finally abandoned the attack.
A ringing British cheer vas raised
upon this second retreat Of the enemy,
and the word was given to the mount.
ed troops To dash out. This was done
by the cavalry and Barrow's mounted
infantry accompanied BY some Of the
swiftfoooted Native Contingent. Who
| few forth from the shelter Of the
wagons and pursued the now dis
heartened survivors. Once turned
and beaten. the Zulu makes no
further stand. and in the headlong
hunt which ensued almost as many Of
the foe rs had fallen before the
musketry and the fire Of the Gatlings
were overlaken and despatched in the
bush. From the first appearance Of
Cetywayo's army up to the last fierce
blows dealt on the flying savases, the
affair did not occupy two hours. But
it was sharp work while it lasted. and
though the British loss in killed was
only FIVE. and in killed and wounded
together fifty for all contingents. yet
some nine or ten hundred Zulus lay
dead around US as sun rose high.
Their total loss Is estimated At 6fteen
hundred.
Panic in . Henagerie.
Kingston. n. Y. Nav 2.-There