Connecticut western news., 1899-10-19
FIGHTING AT WATERING
Related Dispatches From the
 Seat of War.
ATTACKS OF THE BoBRs REPULsED
According to One Report Three Hun dred Were Killed In One Engage ment, While only Eighteen British FeII-Boers Admit Losses.

According to One Report Three Hun-
 dred Were Killed In One Engage
 ment, While only Eighteen British
 FeII-Boers Admit Losses.
 London, Oct. 1S.-Heavy fighting took place near Aiafeking on Saturday, and reports from both British and Boer sources indicate that the Boers were re pulsed and suffered severe loss. According to a Cape Town dispatch 300 Boers and IS British were killed in one engagement. Colonel Baden-Powell made a sortie from Mafeking in force and attacked the Boers who were invest ing the town. After fierce Sighting the British carried the day.
 From Colesburg and several other bor' der towns comes the persistent statement that the Boers have been thrice repulsed at Mafeking with great loss. Refugees who have just reached Lou renco Marques from the Transvaal bring similar reports of a Boer repulse and se- we're losses.
 Word has reached Cape Town that Mafeking was intact up to Saturday night. At that time the Boer artillery was being brought up, but it had not been placed in position.
 Pretoria Reports Engagements.
 Related dispatches from Pretoria throw much light on the operations around Mafeking. One dated Saturday, says:
 Heavy fighting took place this morn. ing north of Mafeking. An armored train sent to repair the railway line opened fire on the Roer commando. One burgh. CT was killed, and two were wounded.
 "A second engagement followed, in which nine British were wounded.
 Yesterday, while General Cronje's troops were near the broken railway bridge, nine miles north of Mafeking, an approaching train, loaded with dynamite, was fired upon and blown up. There were no casualties on the Transvaal side"
 A second dispatch, also dated Satur- day, says:
 A cyclist dispatch was received from Ottoshoep, near Malmani, at this even ing, asserting that heavy fighting had been in progress all day long north of Mafeking. The British troops on board an armored train acted as a covering force to military engineers engaged in re- pairing the track. A Maxim on the train kept up a continuous fire.
 Conspicuous bravery was displayed on both sides, but it soon became appar. ent that the rifles of the burghefs were ineffective against an armored train. The latter, however, was once forced to re treat before particularly strong assault but 1t soon returned, accompanied by a British mounted contingent, and the fighting was renewed fercely.
 Fighting still continues, the Boers holding their positions well. A dozen Boers were killed or wounded, but the British casualties cannot be ascertained.
 Heavy firing can be heard south of Mafeking, where General Cronje's com mando is operating.
 "A corps of experienced continental en- gineers, former officers, has left Pretoria for the southwestern borders, escorted by a commando of picked Boer shots. It is probably intended for large dynamiting operations"
 Boers Bringing Up Heavy Guns.
 A third message, which is dated Sun day, reports:
 Further dispatches received by the government say that fighting continues north of Mafeking. The British, after the second engagement, retired in the al. rection of the town, but they resumed the attack soon afterward, two burghers be ing killed and three wounded. The com mando engaged was impeded owing to the want of heavy artillery, which was subsequently, obtained from General Cronje."
 The Boers seized the telephone at Mod der River last evening and attempted to speak with Kimberley, hoping to learn the disposition of the British forces there The maneuver was discovered and frus. trated.
 r. ia axnactad that tho Roers will cut of Kimberley's water supply, but the De considerable period.
 An armored train, while reconnoitering near Spytfontein, says a message from Kimberley dated Monday, engaged the Boers, killing five and wounding seven. The British had no losses.
 The train, with a detachment of the Lancashires, approached unmolested un- til within range, when the Boers opened fire. They fired 13 shells, but their aim was wretched, not one shot striking the train, which then made bold to approach nearer and open fire with the Maxifns. The burghers replied with heavy rides, again shooting wildly. Only three or four bullets struck the train, which ran back to Kimberley with not a man injured.
 The British are reported to have blown up a highway bridge over the Orange river, 12 miles west of Hopetown, with a view of checking the Boer advance south ward.
 The Times this morning says it under stands that instead of asking a vote of credit the government will present a SUD- elementary army estimate for the addi- tional men required in South Africa. The amount required will be f10,000,00o.