The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-01
GENERAL WHITES DISPATCH,

ULNLNAL WILL . UloIAlVH'
Partial List of the oacors Killed and
woundsd-Gsneral Outline Of the
Disastrous Battle.
LONDON. Oct. sl.-Ths following is
the text of General Whites dispatch to
the war office;
'LADYsMITH, October 30. 1885 p.
NIL have to report a disaster to the
column sent by mo to take position
on a hill to guard the left hank Of the
troops. In these operations to-day the
Royal Irish Fuslllers, No. 10 Mountain
Battery and the Gloucastershlre regi.
ment were surrounded in the hills and
after losing heavily had to capitulate,
The casualties have not yet been ascer-
talned.
"a man OF the Fuslliers, employed as
a hospital orderly, came in under a nag
of truce with letter from the survivors
Of the column, who asked for my as
sIstance to bury the dead, l fear there
is no doub. OF the truth of the report
formed a plan in the carrying out OF
which the disaster occurred, and l am
alone responsible for the plan. There
is no blame whatever to the troops as
the position was untenable."
General White in a subsequent dis
patch says: "rhe following is p list Of
the officers taken prisoners to-day:
Irish Fuslliers-colonel Carleton,
Major Mum. Major Kincald, Captain
Burrowes, Captain Rice, Captain Sill
yer, Lieutenant Heard, Lieutenant
southey, Lieutenant Phibbs, Lieutenant
McGregor Lieutenant Holmes, Lieu-
tenant Kelly Lieutenant Dooner. Lieu-
tenan; Kentish. Lieutenant Kineahan,
Lieutenant Judewlne, Chaplain Matth.
ews. or the above Captains Rice and
silver and Lieutenant Dooner were
wounded.
"Gloucestershlre Regiment = Major
Humphrey Major Capel-cure, Major
Wallace, Captain Duncan, Captain
Conner. Lieutenant Bryant, Lieutenant
Nesblt, Lieutenant InghaE, Lieutenant
Davy, Lieutenant Knox Lieutenant
Temple, Lieutenant Radice, Lieutenant
Breul Lieutenant Hill, Lieutenant
Short, Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant
Mackenzie, Lieutenant Beasley, Lieu-
tenant Gray. OF the above Captains
Duncan and Conner were wounded,
Royal Artillery--Mnjor Bryan!
Mounted Battery-Lleutenan Vince
Ter, LIeuteRana Nugent, Lieutenant
Moore Lieutenan, Webb"
Wholly Unexpected.
While minor reversea were not
wholly unexpected, nothing like the
staggering blow General Joubert dell'-
cred to General Whites forces yester'
day was anticipated The full exten: OF
the disaster is not yet acknowledged
II 1t is known nt the war once. The
loss in efrectiya men must be appalling
to general who Is practically sur
rounded. Two OF the finest British regi.
ments and a mule battery deducted
from the Lndysmith garrison weakens
It about N fifth OF It's total strength and
alters the whole situation very mate.
rally in favor Of the Beers. who have
again shown themselves stern fighters
and military strategIsts OF no mean
order The disaster cost the British
from 1900 to 1000 men and six 7-pound
screw guns, and, MS the BOer artillery
Is already stronger than Imagined, the
capture of these guns will be great
helm to the Boerg
Further news must be awaited before
II Is attempted to fix the blame whers
1t belongs. General White manfully ac-
cepts all responsibility for the disaster,
which, apparently, was at least par
TALLY due the stampeding Of the mules
with the guns. From the list It will be
seen that 42 officers were made prtg-
Onors, besides n newspaper corresponds
cnt, ]. Hyde. The interest In the newA
was universal, pervading all classes
and conditions OF LondOn'a populace.
The newspaper extras we're eagerly
read In business houses, In the stretA,
and by women in their carriages.
Then there was rush to the war OF.
flee, which, by noon, was surrounded
with private carriages and hanscmB.
while many OF the humber class OF
people came on foot, all waiting and
watching for the names they held dear.
Never was the old saw, bad news
travels quickly" better exemplihed
here than to-day. BY noon gloom and
bitter sorrow prevailed throughout tho
British metropolis.
At the Government Offices.
At the government ofIlces no effort
was made TO conceal the feeling OF dis
may prevailing. One official said to
representative of the Associated Press:
at In inexplicable and / am sorry to
say that It's moral eject Is ihesttmabte,
We have lost heavily In many wars
and have had regiments almost wiped
out, but to have regiments captured,
ana by the Beers! II Is terrible!"
An official OF the war office said to a
representative OF the Associated Press;
"The disaster Is more likely due to the
craze OF our younger officers 70 uls-
tlngulsh themselves. obtain mention IN
the dispatches and earn the Victoria
cross thhn to the fault OF that splendid
Indian veteran. General White, In spite
Of his nvowaI."
As the day wore on the crowds
around the war ONCE swelloi to nnor-
nous proportions, and at Gloucsslcr.
the home Of many of those engaged,
the widest excitement prevailed. The
gpgclal editions Of the local newspaperA
were speedily exhausted, ana the same