Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-27
JULES RETREAT.
Almost a Disaster to (he
British Troops.
ONLY B0ER IGNORANCE
That Prevented it-March Was Made
AT Night and Was a Hard One OH
Account of the Heavy Rain That
Was Falling.

London. Oct. o1.-The official ANNOUNCE
ment of the joining of Genera White and
General Yule has come as a great relief
and all the more so in view of the fact
that later dispatches have shown that
only the i%ncapacity of the intelligence
department. of the Beers saved General
Yule's division from a great disaster. 1t
seems that on Friday night Dundee was
full of alarms. Heavy firing was heard
at l O'Clock and again at 4 O'Clock.
A severe thunderstorm soon after
stopped the Boer c~annonading. Satur-
day passed in the same anxious manner,
in momentary expectation of an atack.
The British finally evacuated. taking all
that they could, but leaving plenty be-
hind for the Beers to loot. The appoint
ments of the Beers were Inadequate. 1t
is reported tina General Sir William
Penn Synons died and was buried at
Dundee yesterday.
General Nule's QUINN a a very eS-
haustive march, chiefly by night. the
reason of a night march is not given. but
il was probably a fear of Boer surprises.
The heavy rains and mist hampered the
march. but We're perhaps the means OIL
saving General Yule from molestatlon
1t took the column tWenty-four hours
to cover the last sixteen miles. The
only news this morning consists OF a
more detailed report of recent battles.
The correspondent who visited the hos
uital at Ludysmith. where thei Bc-r
wounded were being tended, reports that
General Jan kock, who was badly
wounded in the thigh and shoulder. said
the advance of the patrol under Com
mandant Pienar without guns, was sim
- ;aat ~ o,,ttto0 t1n rail-
way and this body was subsequently re-
inforced without General Jouberts or
ders, General Niljoen accompanying
them. The latter was killed early in the
fight.
According to another correspondent
the Beers say that General kock during
the battle read his bible and prayed for
victory. His brother, tive sons and a
nephew We're all wounded and taken
prisoners. Colonel Schiel of the German
corps and Commandment Pretorius were
Doth severity wounded. Many promi-
nent Beers are not yet accounted for.
Philip Kock says the Beers suffered
most from soldiers in little clothes-half
rAn and half mountaineering the
Gordon ~Highlanders and in the charge
of the Fifth lancers. They say also that
the two quick-firing guns captured by
the Devonshire regiment are those that
were taken from the Jameson raiders.
Colonel Schiel assured a correspondent
that nothing could stand against the
accuracy of the British guns, which re-
peatedly drove the Transvaal gunners
from the embrasures The British in
fantry fire was also, he said, a complete
surprise to the Beers, who We're conf
dent of their ability to master any in
fantry attack. One Elandslaagte cor
respondent expresses the belief that thu
British killed fewer Beers thar Nigh
have been expected considering tn
heavy fire of the British artillery.
The bullet of the Boer Mausers, it ap
pears, makes a clean, healthy wount
where it passes out. No operation 70
extraction have been necessary at TIL
Ladysmith hospital. With regard to tn
western frontier it is reported that Pres
ident Steyn recently visited a force o
1000 Beers encamped ten miles south o
Kimberley. The war is having it's nat
ural effect in Cape Colony. Everythin!
it at famine prices, and horsetlesh is a
a tremendous premium.
A Dutch circular is being secretly cir
culated in the Burghers-drop district ap
pealing to the Dutch to stand shoulde
to shoulder against The tyrant who new
er kppDS faith