Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-27
KIMBERLY IS
MAIN POINT
III interest In South Africa
Matter.
THELANCASHIRE CHARGE
Was Irresistible and the Beers Were
Forced to Give Up Their Position--
Women Are All Safe--Story of the
Fight on Tuesday.
THELANCASHIRE CHARGE

LONDON, Oct. 21.-During a momentary
lull in the fighting in Natal comes news
from the western border which tempo
| rarily shifts the scene of chief interest
to the beleaguered British force at KIM
oerley. The sharp struggle there Tues
i day appears to have been the result of
a sortie with view of breaking the cor
don surrounding the place. The Brit
ish. apparently 500 strong, met 700 Beers
| and according to officiai and other ac-
counts routed them after severe fight
ing. in which the armored trains appear
| to have done valuable service.
! The Beers We're entrenched strongly Z
miles northward and the British billi-
antly carried the enemys position with
out serious loss. Il is said the Beers
twice unfairly used the white flag
| Botha. who was among the killed, was
member of the voksraad and a ia
, nous Dutch fighter. He distinguished
himself as a marksman at Brenkoors
pruit when the Ninety-fourth British
regiment was moved down. He after
wards defended a farm house against the
British. When he surrendered the farm
house, Botha was found with five wounds
bathed in blood.
special dispatch from Capetown to-
day gives details of the defeat of seven
hundred Beers by British at Riverton
north of Kimberley, Wednesday, in which
the enemy was completely routed with
heavy losses, the British loss being three
men killed and twenty men, includ-
| ing two officers. wounded.
This is probably the same fight, though
in the Capetown dispatch of yesterday in
which it was said the official report from
Kimberly Tuesday announced that Colo
mel Scott Turner, with 27O men, had an
engagement with the Beers, during which
detachment of $50 men Of the Lanca-
shire regiment distinguished itself and
armored trains did good service. The
Beers were unable to Withstand the
splendid charge of the Lancashires who
at the point of the bayonet. The Roer
losses are described as very heavy. Scott
Turner's force consisted of local volun-
teers who with the Lancashires COM
pleted the rout of the burghers after
Mondays artillery had driven them out
of their entrenchments. Botha COM
manded the Boshof force. The fight last
ed four hours.
Before the British sortie Kimberly was
apparently in high spirits. as dispatch
from there dated Oct. % says every one
was cheerful there at that time and that
a wedding was celebrated there that day
The dispatch adds that great enthusiasm
has been aroused there by the news of
British successes in Natal
A letter from Father Roorke says 600
Beers with 100 wagons were laagered at
Taungs. All the whites have left except
the women, who sought refuge in con-
vent. The Boer commandant has prom
ised to protect them
News from the northern border indi-
Gates that the Beers are actively trying
to prevent Colonel Plumer from reliev.
ing Mafeking, hence the absence of news.
Since Pretoria announced the lombard
ment of that place. it is creating consid.
cradle alarm. Newspapers are making
most of what they claim to be "signif-
cant admissions in the supposed Beer
official kilograms.