The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-22
Wild Panic Preptated BY Mule Stampede Caused the Final Sur
render Of Carleton's Column.
Graphic Description Slaughter Glands Iaag Accurate
British Ari1ery-How the Amored Train From Estcourt
Was Amtushed and Lost.

charge into his magazine. What remained
OF the laager was the litter of shell fire.
Tents were torn and burned, wagons spIint-
cred and overturned, food stuffs. dead
horses ana explosives lay In wrecked pro-
fusion. There remained no doubt that our
shell fire had played upon the position
with full effect, and one could only mar
vel that the Beers had stood to their guns
so long. But as one Of the wounded pris-,
oners told me later in the day. there was
no room to retreat, the extended rifles Of
the Manchester regiment overlapping the
reverse of the k0pte, sweeping the north
ern footpath, while the rain OF shrapnel
destroyed every living thing on the west
ern slopes. And the scene at the farm
house. at the foot Of the ridge on the far
side, bore out this statement IT WAS here
that the Beers had brought their horses
for cover and cafcasses lay piled on every
side. The slaughter among the horses
must have been almost as heavy as that OF
the men,"
How Armed Train Was DESTROYED.
Bennett Burieigh. the Daily Telegraph's
war correspondent. supplies a full account
OF the annihiiation OF the armored train
contingent at Chiveley, when Winston
Churchill was captured. The train, 1t ap-
pears. with the exception Of the engine,
by the removal Of the fishplates. and the
seventy men OF the Dublin fusiliers and
the .ninety-five men OF the Durham light In
fantry, to say nothing Of five blueJackets
from the Tartar, were thrown out
Capt. Halfdan, of the Gordon Highland
ers. who commanded the party, rallied
his bruised and shaken men. and amid a
hail OF bullets from the Beers, began to
s~f~
deadly volieys into the almost unseen
Beers. hidden behind the rocks about 1000
yards on. The bluejackets, bravely COM
manded by their petty officer. who was
the incarnation Of GOODNESS. got their sew
en-pounder into action. They sent in two,
II not three, well aimed shells at the
Beers. several hundred OF whom lined the
hills. Just then shot from the enemy's
three-pounder hit the small naval seven
FOUNDER, knocked gun and carriage onto
the veidt. and wounded several OF the
seamen. But the men were not whit
beaten.
winston Churchill's Gnllantry.p
The Pail Mall Gazette's correspondent
describes Winston Churchill's conduct on
this occasion as follows:
cipally of plate layers, ETC., led by Win
ston Churchill who behaved throughout
with heroic courage, succeeded In replace
ing the cars on the rails.
'Mr. Churchill had previously assinted
In carrying in no less than twenty men
under a terrible fire. Some idea of the
accuracy of the enemy's fire and of Mr..
Churchilrs courage may be obtained by
narrating the fact that a Boer shell burst
in front of Mr.. Churchill. killing two men
on each side of him. Our wounded men
were dotting the veldt on each side.
The continued rife fire and the weird
sound of the quick-flring gun added to
the horrors of the situation. At last the
line was cleared and the engine, with one
carriage Of the armored train. was en-
able to return to Freere leaving Can't
Halfdan and party ficrcely engaged. The
Beers gave 1t a passing saivo of shells,
hitting the tender and nearly derailing the
train a second time"
with the Boer Prisoners.
The Daily Graphic's correspondent. de-
scriblng a visit to the hulk of the Pene-
lope at Somers bay. where the Boer pris-
oners are confined, undertaken in the
company of Col. Stowe, the United States
consul general. writes:
sleek, contented and Indifferent They
told me they thought the war would be
a picnic; that they would rush Natal be-
fore the British troops arrived; that En-
gland would be involved in foreign COM
plications, and that they would be able
to dictate terms from Pietermaritzburg.
They though to view the Cape peninsula
as conquerers, not as prisoners. Col.
Schiel steps with difficulty. His wound In