The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-21
GUNS DECIDED
THE BATTLE.
English Artillery Gives the Beers
a Sharp Reverse at Glen
coe Pass.
S|LENCED The BATTERY
A Magnificent Charge of the Infantry on
Strong Position DID Much to Wipe
Away the Stain of Maiube Hill-The
Beers Fled in Panic, Lsavlng Their
Guns-Both Sides Were Heavy Losers

| Glencoe Camp, Oct. 20, afternoon
| The battle to-day has been brilliant
success. The Beers got reverse which
| may possibly for time at any rate,
| check all aggressive action. The Brit
ish artillery practice in the early part
Of the day decided the battle. The
seizure of Dundee Hill by the Beers
was surprise. for although the pickets
had been exchanging shots all night,
| it was not until shell doomed over the
town into the camp that their presence
was discovered. Then the shells came
faster The hill was positively alive
with the swarming Beers, still the Brit
ish artillery got to work with magnifl-
! cent energy and precision.
The batteries from the camp took up
positions to the south of the town and
after a quarter hours magnificent
fighting silenced the guns on the hills.
The correspondent could see shells
dropping among the Boers with re-
markable accuracy and doing tTemend-
Gus execution. for the enemy was pres
ent in large numbers and in places con-
siderably exposed.
BY this time the enemy held the whole
of the hill behind Smiths farm and the
Dundee kopje, right away to the south,
in which direction the British infantry
and cavalry moved at once.
The fighting ragged particularly hot at
the valley outside the town. Directly
the Boer guns ceased firing, General
Sympnds ordered the infantry to move
on the position. The infantry charge
was magnificent. The way the Kings
Royal Rifles and the Dublin Fusilers
storhed the position was one of the
most splendid sights ever seen. The
firing of the Beers was not so deadly
as must have been expected from troops
occupying such excellent position, but
the infantry lost heavily going UP the
hill and only the consummately brill
liant way in which General Symonds
had trained them to fighting of the
kind saved them from being swept
away. Indeed. the hill was almost in
accessible to the storming party and
any hesitation would have lost the day.
The enemy's guns, SO far as the corre-
spondent could see, were all abandoned,
for The Beers had no time to remove
them. A stream of fugitives poured
down from the hillside into the val
ley where the battle went on with no
aba tement.
General Symonds was wounded early
in the action and the command then de-
vowed on Major Yule.
The enemy, as they fed, We're fol-
lowed by the cavalry, mounted infan-
try and artillery. The direction taken
was to the eastward. At the latest
reports the cavalry had not returned.
Some say that four. and some say
| that five guns were captured. The
Boer artillery was weak. a lot OF
plugged shells were used
Although the enemys position was
carried soon after l O'Clock, scattering
fire went on almost all afternoon.
The British losses are very severe,
but the Beers are much heavier.
The rush was made with a triumph
ant YELL and as the British troops
charged to close quarters the enemy
turned and fled, leaving all their Inn
pediinenta and guns behind them in
their precipitate fight.
While this was going on one battery
of artillery, the 18th Hussars and the
mounted infantry, with a part of the
Leicester regiment. got on the enemy's
flank and as the Beers streamed wildly
down the hills, making for the main
road they found their retreat had been
cut off, but they rallied for while,
and there was severe fighting. with
ons[derable loss to each side. Many
of the enemy surrendered. A rough
estimate places the British less at $50
killed or wounded and that of the
Beers at 500.
A newspaper correspondent states
that through his glasses during the
lighting to-day he noticed how much
the Beers seemed to be non-plussed by
the tactics of the imperial troops. es-
pecially of the well drilled, swift NOV
ing horsemen. The enemy are still. as
of old, mob. They are without horses
and forage and many of them rely
for fpod upon what they can obtain by
looting. Their animals are mostly in a
Wretched condition. 1t is understood
that before to-day's battle several
Beers had left their commandoS and
gone home to their farms and many
Others are now likely to follow.