St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-19

NEW YORK, Jan. ia special ca
blegram to the World from Cape Town
says: Capt Thatcher, traveller
known in the United States, who has
served seven years in India and was
with Jameson's column from it's start
until its surrender, but escaped capt
ure, has arrived at Cape Town. He
tells the story of the expedition in the
following language:
''The column started On Sunday after
noon. We were 500 strong. Besides.
there were 100 Kaffirs. There were
three wagons, eight Maxim and three
Whiteworth guns. We knew what we
were going to do. 1t is all rubbish
about our thinking we were going to
fight natives. We counted on support
from the Rand. There was NO other
column and we realized that we had no
official support We continued march
ing until Tuesday without pause. The
days were hot and the nights cold.
The first shot fired was by the Beers
on Tuesday night. We were within
twenty miles of Krugersdorp. 1t came
from about 600 yards range We re-
piled with the Maxims, and they
within a circle of wagons) five miles
further on. We got no sleep, but ate
ravenously. At daybreak we started
again, and were close to Krugersdorp
when suddenly we were fired on from
all sides. We fought only puffs of
smoke. The Beers were ambushed and
we could not get at them. On Wednes-
day evening a thousand Beers appeared
on ridge in open order 1000 yards
long. Concealed Beers continued fir
ing from every direction. We could
not charge, but when the Beers van
1shed under the fire of our guns. we
followed them. We were compelled to
retreat We were
UNDER IA HOT FIRE ALL NIGHT.
We laagered and slept in the saddle.
We were all played out. Only one
chance remained, to push through the
Boer lines at any cost and escape. At
dawn of Thursday we were fired at
heavily from the village of Tluiter
My horse was shot under me- Horses
and men were falling on all sides of
the hill where we stood. We were hot
1y engaged on all siies with 1000 en-
trenched men, but had no cover our
selves. The wounded were dragged
along in wagons. All were in the
open, and at the mercy Of the Beers.
1t was bitterly cold. Our hands were
benumbed. The oe11s were ten to one
against US, Our men were cursing
johannesburg. Cries for water went
up on every side. The sufferings of
the wounded were dreadful Not an
enemy was in sight. All the fighting
was done from ambush. The situation
was hopeless. We could only stand
and be shot down. The Jameson par
tvs nag of truce went up. 1t was an
old shirt. The Beers continued to fire
for another ten minutes The Pre-
toria artillery arrived and opened fire.
Our MaXims could have knocked the
spots out of them, but we had no am
munition At first we thought the
guns were the artillery of our allies.
THANK God, the Rand fellows at
last, was the cry that went up. Our
nope was short-lived. The firing stop
ped. The Beers rode upon us from
every direction. They gave us food,
for lack of which we were nearly dead.
jameson asked if our lives would be
spared If we surrendered. Yes the
Beers leader replied, 1.-The lives of the
..
Never mind me-" replied Jameson,
surrender"
L escaped by representing myself as
London Times correspondent. They
let me go. The others they took to Jo-
hannesburg. The Boer losses have been
ridiculously under estimated They
must have lost at least a hundred men.
/ was at the taking OF Mandalay in 1885,
was in the Black mountains, was the
first up in the Ruby expedition under
Gen. Stewart, where L was shot in the
chest and forehead but I never saw
Drawer men than Jameson's.
What 90 think of Jameson himself
and his generous blunder? D-n the
blunder. Jamesons simply the grand
est man L ever met"
cables from Cape Town says: A thou
were looted by the Uitlanders. The
ton for the abrogation of the treaty
claims the right to control the Trans
vaals foreign relations and for the
annulling Of the British and South At
RIGA company's charter The Boer gov
eminent refuses to allow Cape Train
are opened and inspected on the bor-
der. Traffic is thereby greatly delayed.
Hammond In No Danger.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator White, of
California, said today that he had communi-
Gated with the state department concernine
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