The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-10-27
BOTH LOST HEAVILY.
In the Bloody Battle Glencoe Many
Soldiers Were Killed.
It FFas Triumph OF British Arms, bat at
Great Sacrifice OF LIfe-Boer Rs-
treat Turned Into q Rout-
Battle at ElandslaaEte.

Battle at ElantslaaEte.
London, Oct. 2a.-The war Office an
nOunces in the fighting between
Glencoe and Dundee in Natal, 81 no1-
commissioned officers aud men were
killed and Isl wounded
Gen. SymOus was one Of the few who
escaped on that memorable January
morning at Isandula, when nearly the
whole Of his regiment, the gallant
Twenty-fOurth, persisted. Thus there
is a tragic completeness in his victory
near the scene Of that massacre.
The earliest dispatches regarding the
Glencoe battle conveyed the impression
that the whole affair was over in q
couple Of hours, the British artillery
silencing the BOer guns and infantry
and then simply charging right over
the hill. According to the latest ad-
vices, however, the battle lasted eight
hours, and nearly seven hours elapsed
before the last BOer gun was put out
Of action
The Irish fusiliers and the Kings
rifles, meanwhile, had advanced TO the
assault and were shooting their way
up the hill, driving the Beers back
from shelter TO shelter, until the final
rush Of the British carried them to the
summit.
The magnificent practice Of the Brit
ism guns was an immense help and the
success Of the assault was greatly due
thereto. Once the British bayonets
showed on top Of KOpje, the Beers re-
treated, and when on descending the
other side they found British battery
and British cavalry outfanzing them,
the retreat became a rOut-
The battle at Elandslaagte was 9
veritable slaughter. After the British
had carried the BOer position, a white
dag was raised, whereupon several
hundred Beers attempted to flee. They
were pursued and most Of them per
ished. The BOer loss is estimated at
400 killed and thrice that number
wounded. The British lost 100 killed
and wounded.
There is no denying the great sus-
pense and anxiety existing, which has
been increased by the report in circu-
latiOn, purpOrting TO emanate from
official quarters, to the effect that the
Beers have secured the services Of 49,
600 natives.
The vague and varied estimates Of
the BOer losses and the absence Of any
thing official on the subject are also
arousing misgivings as to whether the
beaten enemy suffered propOrtiOnately
to the disastrous losses Of the victors.
Gen. YuIe Has Fallen Back.
The parliamentary secretary Of the
war Office, George Wundham, in the
house Of commons to-day announced
that Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, the
cOmmander-in-chiefO Of the forces, sums
- 4-1 - E,T-
lows:
Gen Yule has fallen back 70 effect a junction
with Sir George Stewart White He camped
yesterday e-Clning about IS miles south OF Dun
dee, without seeing anything Of the enemy dur
ing the march, and it has since been reported
that 'all's WE'LL on the Waschbank river.
Flag HOIsted Over British Territory.
Cape Town, Oct. 25.-A dispatch from
Kim berley dated October 81 and brought
BY dispatch rider to the Orange river
has Just arrived here. It says:
The position in Kimberley is unchanged The
siege continues Yesterday the armOred train
found the enemy in the same position in The
SpytfOntein neighbOrhOOd- The Beers hOisted
the flag OF the TranSvaal over Vryburg on Octo-
Der 18 and are about issuing a proclamation that
Bechuanalaad now forms part Of the Transvsal
This is regarded as move on the part OF the
enemy 70 induce the colonial Dutch 70 join the
republic without mourning the risk hereafter OF
ultimately defeated.
CrOnie Advancing on Kimberley.
London, Oct. 25.-The Daily Tele-
graph has the following from De Aar,
Cape Colony, dated Monday evening:
Commandaut Cronje, who has been twice re-
pulsed at Mafeking. is said 70 be advancing on
Kimberley and 10 be impressing men and seiz-
ing stores and munitions in British territory
He left a small force investing Mafeking. The
Free State Beers are moving westward in order
70 join him for an attack on Kimberley
RumOr Of British Defeat
New York, Oct. 25.-A special cable
from London declares that the British
war Office is suppressing news Of a
crushing defeat at Glencoe, with heavy
loss. It is stated that the British army
nav be withdrawn 40 miles nearer the
coast to await the arrival of the corps