The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-21
BRITISH LOSSES ARE HEAVY.
All OF the Transvaal Artillery
Captured :. Fleeing Troops
are Being Pursued.
GENERAL SYMONS WOUNDED.
Kruser's Forces Suffer a Tremen-
dous Blow Near Mafeking
100 are Killed.


eight hours of continuous heavy fight-
ing Talaha hill was carried by the Dub
lin Fuslleers and the Kings Rifles un-
der cover of we'll served artillery ftre
BY the Thirteenth and slxty-nlnth bat
tertes. The Beers who threatened th.
British rear have retired.
The fight was almost an exact coun-
,erpart of that of Majuba hill. except
that the positions of the BOer and Brit
ish forces were reversed. General sy-
mons was severely but not dangerous
ly wounded,
General symons was shot through the
thigh but no bones were broken. He
IS cheerful.
The battle to-day has been brill
liant success. The Bocrs got a reverse
which may possibly for n time at any
rate, check all aggressive action.
The British artillery practice in ths
early part of the day decided the battle
The seizure of Dundee hill by the Boers
was surprise. for. although the pich.
cts had been exchanging shots all night
It was not until shell doomed ovzr
the town into the camp that their pres-
oncc was discovered Then-the shells
came fast.
The hill was positively alive with the
swarmlng Beers, still the British artil-
lery got to work with magnificent en-
ersy and precision.
Bocr batteries sIlcnced.
The batteries from the camp took up
positions to the south of the town ana
after quarter hours magnificent fir
ing, sIleuced the guns on the hills.
The correspondent could gee shells
dropping among the Boer pieces with
remarkable accuracy and doing tres
fnendous execution, for the enemy 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 AID
the Dundee Eopje, right away to the
south, in which direction the British In
fantry and cavalry moved at once.
The fighting ragged particularly hot
at the valley outside the town. DI-
rectly the Boer guns ceased firing, GsA
symons ordered the Infantry to move
on the position. The infantry charge
was magnificent. The way the Kings
Rovnl Rifles and the Dublin FusIleer5
stormed the position was one of the
most splendid sights evc- seen. The
firing OF the Beers was not so deadly
as might have been expected from the
troops occupying such an excellen;
position, but the infantry lost heavily
going up the hill and only the consafn-
mately brilliant way in which Gen. sy-
mons had trained them to fighting Of
the kind saved them from being swept
away. Indeed the hill was almost tn-
accessible to the stormlng party AMI
any hesitation would have lost the day,
The enemy,s guns, so far as the corres-
pondent could see. were all abandoned
for the Beers had no time to remove
them. A stream OF fugItIves poured
down the hillside Into the valley.whert
the battle went on with no abatement.
General symons was wounded early
in the action. and the command then
devolYed on Major Yule.
The enemy as they fled were followed
by the cavalry, mounted infantry and
artillery. The direction taken was tC
the eastward, At the latest reports
the cavalry had not returned.
Bocr Artillery Weak.
Some say that four and some say five
guns were captured, The Boer nrtll-
Iery firing was weak. A lot Of plugged
shells were used Although the en-
omys position was carrircd soon after
o'clock scattered firing went on al
most al lniternuon.
The British losses are very severe
but those Of the Beers are much henV-
Ter The Anal rush was made with q
triumphant yell, ana as the BRUSH
troops charged to close quarters the en-
emy turned and fled, leaving ali thctl
impediments and guns behind them In
their preclp!tuttd flight.
While this was going on, one battery
Of artillery. tho Eighteenth HussarS
aud the mounted infantry with part
Of the Leicester regiment, got on inc
enemy's flank, and az the Beers stream
cd wildly down the hills. making Tor Tho
main road. they found their retreat
had been cut off, but they rallied foI
awhile, and there was severe firing
with considerable loss to cach side
Many Of the enemy surrendered. a
rough estimate places the British loss
at $50 killed or wounded, and that OF
the Beers at 500.
Krugcr's Forces in BAD Shape.
A newspaper correspondent statci
that through his glasses during the
sighting to-day he noticed how mucf
the Beers scmecd to bc nonpussed by
the tactics OF the imperial troops. es'
pCclnlly OF the well-drllled, swlfl-mov'
Ing horsemHn. The enemy are sllll as
Of old. "A mob. They are without horse,
and fornBe and many OF them rely fol
food upon what they can obtain by loot
ing. Their animals are mostly in a
wrctched condition.
II Is understood that before tO-day''
battle several Beers had left their com
mAndoes and gone homo to their firms
Und many others are likely 10 follow,
The movement sof the CommnndOe,
n4hO 1JGrpchk district uFe gumnWhni