The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-11-03
JULES CLOSE CALL.
Doer stupidity Saves His Column
From Distraction.

Fx0m DIDxxUCtIO0s
London, Oct. %. The ofncial an
nouncement of the Joining of Gen.
White and Gen. Yulue has come rs .
great relief, and all the more so that
later dispatches have shown that moth
ing but the incapacity Of the intelli-
gcnce department of the Beers saved
Gen. Yule's column from destruction.
It seems that on Friday Dundee was
full Of alarms. Heavy firing was
heard at o'clock and again at 4. A.,
severe thunderstorm soon afterward
stopped the Boer cannonade.
Saturday passed in the same anxious
manner In momentary expectation Of
IN attack. The British finally evacu-
ated, taking all they could, but leaving
plenty behind for the Beers to loot.
Gen. Yule's column had very ex-
haustilk march, chiefly, it is believed,
by night. The reason for a night
march is not given, but it was prob
ably fear Of Boer surprises. The
heavy rain and mist hampered the
march but were perhaps the means OF
saving Gen. Yule from molestation.
1t took the column twenty-four hours
to cover the last sixteen miles.
The only news this morning con-
sists of more detailed accounts of the
battles already reported. A cores
pondent who visited the hospital ut
Iadysmith, where the Beers wounded
at Elandslaagte, who were captured,
are being tended. reports that Gen.
Jan Kock. who was badly wounded IN
the thigh and shoulder, said that the
advance of the patrol under Com
mardant Pienar, without guns, was
simply with the object of cutting the
railway. and that this body was sub
eequently reinforced without Gen.
Joubert's orders, Gen. Viljoen accom-
panying them. The latter was killed
early in the fight.
Col. Schiel assured the correspond
ent that nothing could stand against
the accuracy of the British field guns,
which repeatedly drove the Transvaal
gunners from their embrGsttres. The
British infantry fire was also, he said,
a complete surprise to the Beers, who
were confident of their ability to mas
ter any infantry attack.
With regard to the Western frontier
It is reported that President Steyn re-
Gently visited a force Of 1900 Beers
encamped ten miles south of Kimber-
ley.
The war is having its natural effect
in Cape Colony. Everything is ut
famine prices and horse flesh is at
tremendous premium.
A n,,toh oipn,,1o,s iS hoino Spornf1v
circulated in the Burghersdorp district
der to shoulder against the ''tyrant,
who never keeps faith"
Flight of Dundee Rexidents.
London, Oct. 90. -. The Daily Mail
publishes the following dispatch from
Pietermaritzburg, dated Oct. "a.
"The residents of Dundee had
weary tramp of forty miles to the
nearest town. where they arrived in
pitiable plight, having lost everything.
The refugees included Harry Escombe,
former premier of Natal, and the
Dundee magistrate. One of the Dun
dee people says that all day Saturday
trains We're arriving at Commandment
Gen. Joubert's headquarters at Damn
hauser from the Transvaal border
bringing burghers, and there must
have been 10000 on the hills that sur
round Dundee. The natives report
that the Beers took sixteen wagons
loaded with their dead from the field
Of the first battle at Glencoe. Among
the killed were several Natal Dutch" ;
Will Anttack Free State Forces.
London, Oct. 27.-Gen. Sir Stewart
White, according to a dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Cape Town. will at
tack the Orange Free State forces in
Natal as soon as Gen. Yule's men have
rested. Strong reinforcements are be-
ing sent up from the Cape.
CEN SyMONS man