Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-22

ed them. There were places where wire
fences had impcded the advance. Here
the carnage had been great, ana one
brave fellow stopped In death. cut on
~ he sttoVe to wrench a post from Its
foundations.
"In the skyline OF the tnblelnnd the
dead lay thickost. there being the main
spot whore the attack had been check
ed, but the white iag was already there
and strings OF coolies were digging the
trench which SO often N the soldiers
resting place.
I'VE rode back to the Bocr position
the little kopjc upon which Schlel and
his twcnty-thrcc men had made their
last stand. The bodies Of the fifteen
that had fallen OF this little band were
grouped na death had taken them.
Some lay with heads sunkcn on their
rifle stocks, lighting to the end. An
other had placed his hat upon n promi-
ncnt stone ave yards away and had
died with his fingers pressing u charge
into his magazine.
what remained OF the LANCER was
the little OF shell FIRE. Tents were torn
and burned, wagons spllntcrod and
overturned. foodstuffs. dead horses and
explosives lay In wrecked PROPULSION
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
80 long.
But NJ 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 tho reverse OF the kupie. sweeping
the northern fooipath, while the rain OF
shrnpncl destroyed every living thing
ON the western slopes.
And the scene at the farm house
nestling at the foot of the ridge on
| the far side bore out this abatement
] II bar.s thar N h.. 4
their horses for cover and carcnsses
lay piled ON every side. The slaughter
among the horses must have been al
most ~ heavy us that OF the mon"
Bennett Burloigh. the Daily Tele-
graphs war correspondent, supplics a
full account OF the humiliation OF the
armorcd train contingent at Chleveiey,
| when Winston Churchill was cap
tured. The train. II appears. with the
exception Of the engine. tender and two
trucks, was badly wrecked by the re-
muval OF fish plates and the seventy
/ two men OF the Dublin fusllcers and
the nlnety-iivo men OF the Durham
| light Infantry, To say nothing OF Ave
blue Jackets from the TaTar. were
/ thrown out.
Captain Haldane. OF the Gordon
/ hlghlnndors, who commanded tho
| party, rallied his bruised and shaken
men and amid n hail OF bullets from
| the Beers. began TO clear the line while
others were pouring deadly yolleys
| INTO the almost unseen Beers, hidden
behind the rocks about l 1000 yards on
The blue jackets. braycly command
ed by their petty offlcerH-who were the
incarnation OF coolness-got their
seven FOUNDER into action. They sent
| In two, II not three well-aimed shells
at the Beers, several hundred OF whom
lined the hills. But Just then shot
| from the rnemy's three pounder. or
Held hlI tho uunulI
FOUNDER knocking gun ana carriage
onto the vcldt and wounding several OF
the seamen. But the men were not a
whit beaten.
The PAN NAH Gazettc's correspond
ont describes Winston Churchlll's con-
duct on this occasion as follows:
"a party OF volunteers, consisting
principally OF plate layers. etc, led by
Winston Churchill who behaved
throughout with most heroic courage.
succeeded In placing the rails. MIR.
Churchill had previously assisted in
carrying In no less than twenty men
under a terrible fire.
Some idea Of the accuracy Of the
cEemy's fire and OF Mr.. Churchlll's
courage may be obtained by narratlng
the tact that u Boer shell burst In
front Of NJ, Churchill. killing two men
on each side OF him. Our wounded
We're now dotting the vcldt ON each
side. The continued rifle fire and the
weird sound OF the quick firing guns
added to the horrors OF the situation.
AT last the line was clear and the
engine = with one carriage OF the
armorod train was enabled to return
To Frere. leaving Capt. Handano and
party nercely engaged. The Beers
rave II u passing snlvo OF shells, hit
ting the tender and nearly derailin,g
the train second time"
The Iaily Grnph,c's correspondent
describing II visit TO the Hulk Pehe-
lppc at Somers bay wnere the Beer
prisoners are confined. undcrtalten IN
the company Of Col. Stowe, the
United States consul general writes.
"'rhc majority OF the prisoners are
seek. cfrtcnted and Indifferent. They
told NE they thought ,he war would
b. paIc that they would rash
Natal before the imperial troops ar
rived, that England would be involved
In foreign complications and that they
would be- able to dictate terms from
plc,cimarltzburg and Durham. TLey
thought TO view the Cape peninsula
as conquorors, not from "a prison ship.
"Col. Sohlel steps with difficulty.
HIS wound In the thigh Is nearly heal.
ed. but he still requires the use OF a
stick. Schlel IL n typical soldier of
forturc-grizzly gray hair cropped
close. aggressive military mustachc,
ahrewd gray-blue eyes, n thick neck
n figure still unmlstnkably active, but
tending TO stoutness.
"As TO bearing, he In a Genial man
OF tho world lie Introduce us TO
some OF his brother officers, Including
Capt. Van Lesgelo, benevolent
good looking cosmopolitan OF kindly
oSpress.t II and modest mein who told
h.. Ia. I.fI