The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-18
THE FIGHTING AT WATERING
1LL REPORTS S4Y THE BOERS S UF-
 TERED SEVERE REPULSE.
Fighting Lasted Several Hours and the Boers Lost tHcavily--Onc Report Places Their Loss nt 300 KiIled-ArmOred Train nAttackeu-Boer Aim Wretehe ed - Basutos Said to Have Risen Against the Free State.

l l the Free State.
 London, Oct. 1S.--A despatch dated | Colesburg, October IT, q. m., says Tt is consistently reported from wide
 ly different sources that large force
 of Boers resolutely attacked Mafekins
 on Friday, and after several hours | fighting were repulsed with heavy | loss"
 I The despatch earlier in the day stat. | ing that 900 Boers and IS British haG | been killed at Mafeking also came from | Colesburg and the impression grows | that very serious fighting' has certain. | ly taken place. Colonel Baden-Powell | who is reported to have made sortic i from Mafeking, is a daring fighter and just such man military men say here that would fight the Boers the first good chance he got. The report also says that the sortie brought on fierce en- gagement and that the British carried the day.
 A despatch from Lourenzo Marques says that refugees arriving from the Transvaal report that the Boers have
 been repulsed at Mafeking, with heavy losses.
 A despatch from Mafeking direct re- ceived at Cape Town says that all was intact there up to Saturday night AZ that time the Boer artillery was being brought up, but it had not been placed in position.
 A dispatch from Kimberley, da ted
 yesterday, says an armored train, while
 accommodating near Spytfontein, en-
 gazing the Boers, killing five and
 wounding seven. The British had no
 losses. This skirmish. according to a
 tier dispatch from Cape Town, was
 quite lively. The armored train, with
 a detachment of the Lancashires, ap- preached unmolested until within range
 when the Boers opened fire. The Max
 inns were instantly set to work and did
 great execution among the burghers.
 The latter also used artillery but in- effectively. The aImored train returned
 to Kimberley unharmed. The crew of
 the armored train say the Boers fired
 thirteen Shells, but their aim was wretched and not a single shot struck
 teh train. which then made bold to ap- proach nearer and open fire with the MaXims. The burghers replied with heavy rifles. again shooting wildly. Only three or four bullets struck the train. Subsequently the crew learned that five Boers and. two Boer horses he'd been killed and several Boers wounded. Not member of the Brit ish force was touched.
 Noon.-Communicat with Belmont station, sixty miles south of Kimberley, is still open. The fight with the armor- ed train from Kimberley, in which the Boers lost more men than they did at Majuba Hill, is held to prove that their shooting is not so good as it is reputed to be. It is the general belief here from items of intelligence received that the Boers actually attacked Mafekng and were repulsed. The reports of contin- ued fighting there are regarded as prov ing that the Boers failed to score a suc- cess.
 A dispatch from Ladysmith dated October 1T, at 5 p, n., says: The fore most detachment of the enemy's north ern column has not advanced beyond Ingagaane, and no definite movement has been made from the Drakensberg Passes.
 Ine Morning POstS LadySm1th corre- spondent telegraphs that the Basutos have risen against the Free State
 The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Glencoe telegraphs that General Sir William Symons says that there are only three thousand mounted men in the Boer column immediately north of Ladysmith, but that there are large numbers of men on foot The horses of the Boers are in wretchedly poor con- dition and the men looked worn out. The Boers are robbing all natives trav- ersing the Transvaal.
 The Standards Dundee correspondent, Monday night, says: The Boers have brought artillery from New castle and are destroying the railway at Ingagane in order to prevent the ap. proach of our armored train.