Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-10-22
BRITISH WIN VICTORY
ROut the IlOcrs in Their ATTEMPT
10 Take Glencoe.
LOSS on BOTH SIDES.
British Make a Splendid Charge and
Lose $50 Men and Loss 10 the
lIoer, i Placed at 300.
Beers Guns Captured.

Glencoe Camp, Oct 81. - The battle
here Friday was a brilliant success The
Beers got a reverse which may possibly
check all aggressive action. The British
artillery decided the battle
The seizure Of Dundee hill by the
Beers was a surprise for all. although
the pickets had exchanged shots all
night Thursday, IL was not until shell
doomed and fell into camp that their
presence was discovered Then the
shells CAME fast The hill was posi-.
lively alive with the swarming Beers.
still the British artillery got To work
with magnificent energy and precision
The batteries from the camp took up
positions TO the south Of the town and
after quarter Of an hours magnificent
fighting silenced the guns on tho hill.
Shells were dropped among the Boer
pieces with remarkable accuracy and
did tremendous execution. for tho enc.
my were present in very large numbers
and in places considerably exposed by
this time the enemy held the whole Of
the hill behind Smiths farm and the
Dundee kopie, right away 10 the south,
In which direction the British infantry
and cavalry moved at once.
The fighting ragged particularly hot
In the valley at the side Of the town.
Directly the Boor 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 fusi.
leers stormed the position was one Of
the most splendid sights ever seen The
firing Of the Beers was not so deadly rs
might have been expected from troops
occupying such an excellent position.
but the infantry lost heavily going mp
the hill and General Symons had
trained them TO fighting OF that kind
IL saved them. Indeed, the hill was
almost inaccessible 10 the storming
party, and any hesitation would have
lost the day. The enemy's guns We're
all abandoned, for the Beers had no
time 10 remove them. A stream of ia.
gitives poured down the hillside into
the valley. where the battle went on
with no abatement
General Symons was wounded early
in the action and the command then de-.
veloped on Major Yule.
The enemy as they fled were followed
by the cavalry mounted infantry and
artillery The direction taken was to
the eastward. At the latest report the
cavalry had not returned
Some say that -four and some say five
guns were captured The Boer artillery
was weak A lot Of plugged shells were
used
GAlthough the enemys position was
scattered soon after / o'clock. scattered
firing went on almost all the afternoon.
The British losses are very severe but
those Of the Beers are much heavier.
The final rush was made with a
triumphant yell and as the British
troops charged 10 close quarters. the
enemy turned aud fed. leaving all their
impediments aud guns behind them in
their precipitate flight
While this was going on one battery
Of artillery, the Eighteenth hussars and
the mounted infantry. with a part Of
the Leicester regiment got on the enc
my's TANKS. and ~ tho Beers streamed
wildly down the hills making for the
main road, they found their retreat had
been cut off, but they rallied for a while
and there was severe fighting with con.
siderable loss TO each side. Many Of
the enemy surrendered
A rough estimate places the British
loss at $50 killed or wounded and the
Beers at 800