Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-18

The Red Cross train which went out
TO carry relief to the British soldiers
wounded in the attack on an armored
train near Chieveley returned this al
ternoon without the dead and wounded.
The Beers declined to give any infor-
nation as to the names of either killed
or injured, referring the inquiries to
the Pretoria press for all information.
All that they would disclose was the
fact that three Of the British were dead
and nine wounded.
Seven of the Durbans have come in,
making % missing. Only Is OF the
Dublins have returned.
The Elmelo Boer force has taken up
a position near Ennerdale, few miles
north of here. They have eight seven
FOUNDER and two French guns. Their
strength is 1000 men. They have looted
Henderson's store.
All is quiet here and ready for the
enemy if it attacks. There is no anx-
iety.
correspondent who has just visited
the hospital says all the armored train
wounded are doing we'll. Capt. Wylie,
in an interview. said Sergeant Todd
deserves special mention for having
surrounded him with boulders to pro-
tect him from the rifle fire when lying
helpless and wounded. Todd even lay
down beside the officer to cheer him.
A Shell landed among the protecting
boulders, scattering them with earth,
but Capt. Wylie sustained no further
injury.
eyeral men escaped marvelously
When Winston Churchill requested
Capt. Wylie to call for volunteers to
remove the upset truck, bullets, it is
said, were dropping on the train like
rain" The men throughout stuck to
their work, responding to the example
set by Churchill and Lieut.. Franklin
until the line was cleared. Churchill
actually left with the engine, but he
got out at the next station, Frere, took
a rifle from a soldier, saying he could
not leave the wounded and walked
away in the direction of the Beers.
Sergeant Hassett, of the Dublin Fusil-
iers. behaved with the greatest gal
lantry. He took charge of the firing
party and stood up unfinchingly during
the Beers hot fire. His example cleo
trifiod the Fusiliers, who kept the Beers
at bay by volleying.
Capt. Haldane fell early in the en-
gagement, shot through the shoulder.
Lieut.. Franklin's conduct is highly
praised. He exhibited great GOODNESS
during the critical period He is re-
ported missing.
Copeland, of the Durham volunteers,
bnd tn NV hlo dor cd
truck, and Godfrey, plate layer, was
shot through the head, but is doing
well. Lieut.. Alexander had an excit-
ing experience A Fusiliers who had
been wounded in the arm BY a she'll
which shattered the limb, swung round
and hit Alexander in the neck, almost
smothering him with blood. The shell
burst in front of the lieutenant, on a
level with his face, and he staggered,
blinded for a moment The next in
slant he saw his comrade lying dead
at his feet while he himself was I'M
harmed.
Private Kavanaugh, of the Dublins,
performed splendid work When the
British firing line fell back he time
after time, rallied the men, volleyed
and prevented the horse shoe line of
Beers from enveloping the train.
LONDON, November 1.-THE serious
and unexpected disaster to the Estcourt
armored train on the eve of the forward
movement for the relief of Ladysmith,
has apparently convinced the British that
the advance will be contested step by step.
The Beers are seemingly swarrning south
of Colenso. While large force has come
from the neighborhood of Ladysmith
much larger force has arrived from else
where and will probably turn out to be
Gen. Schalkberger's corps. The Beers are
evidently straining every nerve and bring
ing up every man to reduce Ladysmith be-
fore the British relief force is ready Their
operations southwark show considerable
boldness and correctness of strategy. If
their aim is to Isolate Estcourt by cutting
off communication with the Moot river
where there is an important railroad
bridge, everything points to the belief that
the officer commanding the relieving coll
umn win have a more difficult task than
is generally assumed. In front he will
have broad river to cross, in the presence
of the Beers; on his right and, probably,
in his rear, will be hostile bodies who are
constantly demonstrating their superior
cunning.
Inc Official account OF the disaster to
the Estcourt armored train, showing that
hundred missing men are now, probably,
already on their way to Pretoria, to swell
the large number of British prisoners al
ready there, besides a score of wounded,
demonstrates, it is claimed, that the Brit
ish must have encountered big odds, as
all accounts agree that the small British
force fought with the utmost bravery
Winston Churchills brilliant behavior is
compared with the gallant action in the
Tirah campaign which won Lord Fincastle
there also acting as a newspaper CORE
spondent the Victoria cross. The railroad
men of Estcourt have already forwarded
a dispatch to the general manager of the
railroad, expressing admiration for the
GOODNESS and pluck of young Churchill, to
whose efforts they attribute the saving of
the engine and tender and the wounded,
and asking the manager to convy their adj
miration for the brave man.
There are runors of another disaster to
an Estcourt armored train and it is re-
ported that twenty-five volunteers which
formed the escort are missing. But there
is no CONTINUATION of these reports.
When def1pite news from Ladysmith b