Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-26
Transvaal Forces Repulsed
in a Bloody En-
counter.
Attack British Force at
Glencoe Camp
Friday.
Driven From Dundee Hill
-=Eight Hundred
Dead.

/
Fusileers and the kings rifles at 3
O clock Friday afternoon under cover
OF a well-served artillery fire by the
18th and 69th batteries. The beers
who threatened the British rear have
act counterpart of that Of Majuba hill.
except that the positions OF the beers
and British forces was reversed. Gen
eral Symons was severely but not dan
gerously wounded The battle was a
brilliant success. The beers got re-
verse which may possibly, for a time
at any rate, check all aggressive action.
The British artillery practice in the
early part of the day decided the bat
tie. The seizure of Dundee hill by the
beers was surprise for, although
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 fast and the hill was pos
itively alive with sWarming beers.
still the British artillery got to work
with magnificent energy and precision
and after a quarter hours magnificent
nring, silenced the guns on the hill
The hghting ragged particularly hot in
the valley, outside the town. Directly
SymonS ordered the infantry to move
on their position. The firing of the
beers was not so deadly as might have
been expected from troops occupying
such an exalted position but
the infantry lost heavily
going up the hill and only the consum-
mately brilliant way in which General
Symons had trained them to fighting
saved them from being swept away
The hill was almost inaccessible to a
stOrming party and any hesitation
would have lost the day. The enemy $
guns were all abandoned for the beers
had no time to remove them. A
stream Of fugitives poured down the
hillside into the valley, where the bat
tie went on with no abatement. Gen.
Symons was wounded early in the &C
ton and the command then devolved
on Maj. Yule. The enemy as they
fed were followed by cavalry and
mounted infantry and artillery. The
direction taken was to the eastward
At latest reports, the cavalry had not
returned. Some say four and some say
five guns were captured. The British
losses were very severe but those of the
beers were much heavier. One battery
of artillery, the 18th Hussars, and the
mounted infantry, with part of the Lie
cester regiment, got on the enemy's
flank and as the beers streamed wildly
down the hills, making for the main
road, they found retreat had been cut
off. But they rallied for a while and
there was severe firing with consider
able loss to each side. Many of the
enemy surrendered. Rough estimates
place the British loss at 250 killed or
wounded, that OF the beers at 800.
Money and Troops Voted.
London, Oct. 21.-The house of COM
mons voted 100000 pounds sterling
$50 900, 000-and the calling out of
% 600 reserves for the bOer war Friday,
the Irish and a few radical members
only voting in the negative. William
Redmond, Parnelite member for East
Glare, persisted in interrupting the
proceedings, saying that the money
should be spent in Ireland and criticiz-
ing the government, and was ordered
to leave the house. Mr.. Balfour read
a message from Major Yule, dated
Glencoe Camp, in which he said: 'rI
regret to report that Gen. Symons is
MORALLY wounded. Other casualties
will follow. The important success of
today is due to Gen. Symons' great
courage and fine generalship and to the
gallant example of confidence he gave
the troops under his commando
Dynamited the Beers.
Cape Town, Oct. 21.-Dispatches dat
ed at Mafeking aSturday night and
carried by dispatch down the river via
thurman and Danielskunl to Hook
Town state that Col Baden-Powen in
flicted tremendous blow on the beers
nine miles north of Mafeking. Two
trucks laden with dynamite which it
was judged unsafe to keep in Mafeking
on account of the risk of explosion
should the town be shelled, were sent
by Baden-Powen nine miles out in the
hope that the beers would shell and
explode them. And so it happened.
When the engine had uncoupled from
the trucks and retreated about mile,
the enemy shellcd the trucks with the
result that e terrible explosion oc-
Cured, killing, 1t is estimated, 100
beers.
Troops Leave England.
Southampton, Oct. 21.-The trans
port Yorkshire, carrying the first
troops of the special army corps for
south Africa. cast off at 2:20 o'clock
Friday afternoon, other transports fol-
lowing at regular intervals. Immense
throngs gathered on the dock, cheering
visitors and bidding farewell to
friends. Before Tuesday 1900 men
will leave for south Africa.
Beers Leave Hattingspruit.
Durham, Oct. 21.-It is officially an
nounced that the beers retired from
Hattingspruit Friday morning.