Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-10-26
BATTLE OF GLENCOE.
The Beers Get a Reverse Which
May Check Them for a Time.
KILLED BY A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Some Trucks Are Shelled and u Hundred
Beers Lose Their Lives-Fears Subsid-
ing-Boers Fail in Their Endeavor
-Delirious Over the Victory.


-Delirious Over the Victory.
Glencoe Camp, Oct 21.-The battle
yesterday was brilliant success. The
Beers got reverse which may possibly
for time at any rate check all agrees
sive action. The British artillery prac'
tice in the early part of the day decided
the battle. The seizure of Dundee hill
by the Beers was Il surprise, for al.
though the pickets had been exchang'
ing shots all night, it was not until a
shell doomed over the town into the
camp that their presence was discov-
cred. Then the shells came fast The
hill was positively alive with the
swarming Beers, still. the British artil.
lery got to work with magnificent
energy and precision. The batteries
from the camp took up positions to the
south of the town and after a quarter
hours magnificent firing, silenced the
guns on the hills.
Directly the Boer guns ceased firing
Gen. Symons ordered the infantry to
move on the position. The infantry
charge was magnificent. The way the
Kings Royal rifles and the Dublin
fusiliers stormed the position was one
of the most splendid sights ever SEEM
The firing of the Beers was not SO
deadly as might have been expected
from troops occupying such an excel
lent position, but the infantry lost
heavily going up the hill and only the
consummately brilliant way in which
Gen. Symons had trained them to fight
ing Of the kind saved them from being
swept away. Indeed the hill was al
most inaccessible to the storming par
ty and any hesitation would have lost
the day.
BOERs KILLED BY DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
Cape Town, Oct. 2l.-Dispatches
dated Mafeking, Saturday night and
carried by dispatch riders via Daniel
skull to Hooktown, state that Col.
Baden-Powell inflicted 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
explosion should the town be shelled,
were sent by Col. Baden-Powell 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 re-
treated about mile the enemy shelled
the trucks with the result that a ter
rible explosion occurred killing, it is
estimated, 100 Beers.
FEARS OF AN INVASION sUBsIDING.
Cape Town. Oct. 2l.-Trains to and
from Aliwal north are again running.
The fear of a Boer invasion of Cape
Colony has subsidized and it is generally
believed that the commanders have
moved to the Basuto border on account
of report of great massing of the
Basutoes to raid the Orange Free
State in revenge for the robbery and
maltreatment of their countrymen.
THE FREE STATE Beers ADVANCING.
London, Oct. 2l.-The Daily Mails
Ladysmith correspondent telegraph
ing yesterday says: 81 understand
that the Free State Beers, undeterred
by the defeat of the northern army,
are advancing and it is reported that
an engagement is imminent"
BOERs FAILED IN THEIR ENDEAvoB
London, Oct. 2l.-The dispatches re-
ceived from South Africa leave no doubt
that the Beers failed in their endeavor
to execute a combined attack in Natal
and that the British have achieved a
brilliant victory, but at the cost of a
heavy list of killed and wounded.
DELICIOUS OVER THE VICTORY.
Cape Town, Oct. 2l.-The town last
night was delirious over the victory at
Glencoe yesterday. The streets were
filled with a cheering, hat-waving
crowd singing patriotic airs. The
newspaper offices were besieged.
BoERs RETIRE FROM HATTINGspRUITT.
Durham, Oct. Alt is officially an
nounced that the Beers retired from
Hattingspruitt yesterday morning.