The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-22
HORRORS OF WAR TOLD
BY CORRESPONDENTS
Thrilling Accounts of Desperate Battles Fought BY
BOer and English Forces in Africa
Graphic Story Of the Disaster at Nichosen's Neck
Frightful Slaughter of Men and Beasts.

, Cease firing sounded. Again and again
it sounded. but the Irish F'usiters wero
loath to accept the call, and continued
firing for many minutes Then it was
unconditional surrender, and the men
laid down their arms
The correspondents at Ladysnith OF
the same paper. describing the battle
/ field of Elandslaagte. realistically de-
tails the horrors of war. He writes:
Scenes On the Battlefield.
1.-The battlefield, as it stood on the
Sunday, conveyed sufficient proof of the
severity of the fire The wounded had
been removed by daylight. but the bur-
ial parties had not arrived to perform
the last duties to the dead The men
lay there as they had fallen, a sad
pathetic tribute to the courage of tha
British soldier.
I'VE followed this tragic trail-High--
landers, Manchesters and mounted VOL
unteers lay indiscrimilately grouped
Then solitary figures under the stones
showed how little the cover had avail
ed them There We're places where wire
fences had impeded the advance. Here
the carnage had been great. and one
brave fellow stopped in death, cut of
as he strove TO wrench a post from it's
foundations.
In the skyline of the tableland the
dead lay thickest, there being the main
spot where the attack had been check
ed, but the white flag was already thers
and strings of coolies were digging the
trench which so often is the soldiers
resting place.
Death In Group.
I'VE rode back to the Boer position
the little kopje upon which SchieI and
his twenty-three men had made their
last stand The bodies of the fifteen
that had fallen of this little band were
grouped as death had taken them.
Some lay with heads sunken on their
rifle stocks, fighting to the end An
other had placed his hat upon a promi-
nent stone five yards away, and had
died with his fingers pressing a charge
into his magazine.
What remained of the laager was
the litter of she'll fire. Tents We're torn
and burned, wagons splintered an5
overturned, foodstuffs, dead horses ant
explosives lay in wrecked profusiOn
There remained no doubt that our shell
fire had played upon the position with
full effect, and one could only marvel
that the Beers had stood to their guns
so long.
But as one of the wounded prison
ers told me later in the day. there was
no room to retreat. the extended files
of the Manchester regiment, overlap
ping the reverse of the kopje. sweeping
the northern footpath, while the rain of
shrapnel destroyed every living thing
on the western slopes
Slaughter of Horses. -
'.And the scene at the farm house
nesting at the foot of the ridge, on
the far side bore out this statement
1t was here that the Beers had brought
their horses for cover and carcasses
lay piled on every side The Slaughter
~, hox
almost as heavy as that of the men,
Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Tele-
graphs war correspondent supplies a
full account of the annihilation of the
armored train contingent at Chieveley.
when Winston Churchill was cap
tured. The train, it appears, with the
exception of the engine, tender and two
trucks, was badly wrecked by the re-
moval of fish plates. and the seventy
two men of the Dublin FuSilierS and
the ninety-fve men of the Durham
light infantry to say nothing of five
blue jackets from the Tartar. We're
thrown out
Captain Haldane of the Gordon
who commanded the
party rallied his bruised and shaken
men and amid hail of bullets from
the Beers began to clear the line while
others were pouring deadly volleys
into the almost unseen Beers, hidden
behind the rocks about 1000 yards off.
Bravery of Blue Jackets
The blue jackets. Dravely commands
ed by their petty officerS-whO were the
of cOolness-got their
seven-pounder into action. They sent
in two, if not three well-aimed shells
at the Beers. several hundred of whom
lined the hills. But just then shot
from the enemy's three-pounder. or
field gun, hit the small naval seven-
FOUNDER, knocked gun and carriage
onto the veldt and wounded several OF