The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-24

colored by the red hue of gun flashes
and shells tore along, roaring through
the air like express trains in a tunnel,
bursting noisily and spouting flame,
lead and steel, which Missed like not
iron dropped into water. The places of
| explosion were marked by clouds of
earth and a nimbus of white smoke.
THE enemy bobbed over the rocks
like jacks-in- the box, firing heavily at
US and with fair accuracy, for the
magazine Mauser weapon is a holy ter
ror, although it inflicts clean wounds.
Many of them used explosive bullets.
The Boer shells We're mostly percus-
sion and threw UP volcanoes of mud
and stone about our gun crews. 1t
should be noted that. especially on
rocky ground, percussion shells give
better results than high bursting
shrapnel
Colonel Scott Chisholm of the I'm
perial Light Horse, courted disaster by
waving his scarf to give encourag ement
TO his men, who really needed none
Suddenly somebody showed white flag
and Colonel Hamilton tried to stop the
fighting, but the party of Beers en-
sConced on a conical hill, and caring
nothing about their comrades, took ad-
vantage of the lull to deliver a heavy
( fire. The Gordon Highlanders and the
Manchesters We're rendered more saw
age than ever by this and redoubled
their energy, for the Beers in the hoI-
lows were delivering a fianking fire
Our Tommies got wonderful quanti-
ties Of loot-from silk hats and frock
coats to beaded Kaffir loin cloths 1t
was sight today to see them loaded
with their booty.
Although we gave the prisoners the
best seats around the camp fires, many
OF the poor wounded had TO lie out on
the bare hillsides. where they spent a
terrible night. crying: For Gods sake
give Us water. Get doctor for us.
Out here are British and Beers One
man fired round after round from his
rife to attract attention to his where
about. for the field Of battle covered
miles. The Beers say that the kits of
the Gordon Highlanders made them
conspicuous targets"
The Daily News says: THE ap-
preaching fall of darkness was a great
factor in the last phases of the fight,
making the capture of the position at
once absolutely imperative. BY this
time the crack or rifles and the rattle
Of Maxims had become absolutely furf-
GUS Our men understood the necessity
well enough.
Nothing loath, they exposed them
selves CALAMITY in their resolution to
drive the Beers from their last stand.
Officers, sergeants and men fell in the
lines. but nothing checked the fierce
onset. Conspicuous among the Gordon
Highlanders and in the fighting line
throughout was Lord Ava, attached es-
pecially to the brigadiers staff.
1.-The final rush was a sight to see.
With leveled bayonsts, cheering as they
went cur men sprang over the boul-
ders that were strewn at their feet.
The Beers, recoiling. fired wildly and
then dashed down the rugged slope to
escape the humiliation which threat
ened them. Some, desperately deter
mined on killing, returned to the Neck.
in the rear of which the Highlanders
had crouched behind some boulders.
These men fired on ambulance men at
work among the wounded. 1 and others
can certify from our own experience
10 this dastardly act