Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-17
Beers ARE NEAR DUNDEE.
Mines close Down statement OF the
Advance Made by the uoors
Up to Monday.

Sew York, oct ia dispatch TO the
Herald from London says
The Daily Telegraph publishes this
dispatch from IT, special correspondent
Ladysmlth. Monday Dundee is now
practically empty Special trains have
brought down 5000 persons. mostly woe
men and children besides many ln
trucks mat carl. A military order 90
cvacuate was received in Dundee at
. o'clock this morning.
The Dutch and native local miners
have lcfi their work ln the Dundee dis
trlct an the mines in this urou have
boon closed down. owing 10 the alarm
that the bocrs are in the vicinity uf
Dundee
oliver Davis reports that hs store la
igogo was looted by the Beers lie
watched them enter Newcastle on sun
day night and saw tho advance guard
~ General Jouhcrta column enter
Dannhuuser station, which b. south Of
Newcastle.
our patrol beyond Dundee last night.
caught u spy named Nrrmaak II ap-
pears from this man. who l-'u Dutch.
man. that the lioers have torn up the
railway near lngngancn \ hotel
keeper saw them there -Four Boora en-
tered his hotel, bought and paid for
their hoods and then told him 90 get
out. and took possession N the place.
Private reports say that the loer cul-
umn " advancing from DE JaFrrH Drift
against Dundee with about 1000 men.
but this number " greatly exaggerated.
Probably there are only about 1000.
kilograms sent % LAdysmith and
Newcastle from HuntngHpruit station.
north ~ Glencoe. ask that no more
empty trucks tlat cairl shan be- for-
wnrded there II l. believed that the
encmys patrol are ln tho urlrhborhuud
N the coal fields, which ~ also THREAT
cncd. II this should be- closed the
source from which the best steam coal
o. obtained In this part Of the world
would be- temporarily lost
The proclamation nj martial law will
have a. beneficial eject ln clearing the
border Of numbers Of spies ana other
suspected persons.
The following statement has been Of
nclally communicated humei
"'rhe colony OF Natal was invaded
from the Transyual early on the MORN
Ink 81 the igth inst The advance was
made hy the enemy In three columns.
"pn the rlEht was the mixed column
Of Trnusvualera ana Free State burgh-
crH, with the Hollander volunteer corps
II moved through kothua Pass.
In the center was the main column
under Cen. Jouhort's personal COM
mana ~ tfuhNnu AfAlNh NNht anu
moved forward by way of igogu
ION the lcft % large command ad-
vanccd from Wakkerstroom, by way
OF Motts Mex ana Woods Drift.
The objective point uf an three coll
umnH was Newcastle, which was occu-
pied on the night ~ October iith. the
central column having slept the previous
night at General Collcy'a old camping
place, Mount Prospect.
Yesterday an advance party Of 1900
Beers, with artillery, pushed south To
tnraEauo. hut the greater portion ~ the
command retired during the day on
Newcastle.
THE Bocr force. which FOR some days
has been concentrated east of De Jag
crH Drlft, on october lfth captured "a
patrol Of six men Of the Natal police,
"a picket Of mounted infantry OF the
Sixteenth rifles also exchanged few
shots with the enemy. This as yet Is the
only lighting
"Our troops are In excellent spirits and
fcttle. The Natal volunteers Ia partlc-
ulnr are doing valuable work In "a sol-
dlorlke manner. The general officer
commanding In Natal greatly apprecl-
ates the conduct"