Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-16
KIMBERLEY BESEICED BY Beers.
Large Force Ready to Attack Fourteen
Strean1s---b Beers Gut Wires and
Details Are Lacking.
FLAGS OF TRUCE FIRED ON.

Cape Town. oct. 15.-President Steyr
If the Orange Free State. ana Presi-
dent Kruger If the Transvaal. main
tain their telephone communicative
AliWalnurth dispatches say that
F.rrghridge. Whinh heretofore has been
4 great aid t. EC.r snics. is now closed
ana guarded by Cape police. 1t i
rumorcd that the H-est-nraal com
mando strengthened by sou Beers from
Smithticil, IL m-nac.uE AiiWalno-th.
\ kafiir brought q Nryburg b. tha
returning hospital train says he pass
ID the scene Of the recent armored
train disaster ANA saw several bodies
of white mn lying there
There is etiN T, reliable news from
either Ladysm;th IF Glencoe, except
that a patrol from the latter place ex-
changed shots With a small body III
Beers on the road to Hclpmakoar. All
reports agree that The Beers now oc-
cupy Newcastle.
Eocr tents have been discoverc
eight miles southeast or Kimberly.
Great clouds of dust seen II miles u
the eastward Of Kimberly. this morn
ir~. seem to indicate the movement of
Il large hody of troops with wagons.
TWO imperial officers At midday also
discovered 4 column Of 400 Beers going
ing in The direction Of Moddcr river
bridge frum Johannesburg.
Small parties Of Beers evidently on
q communicating expedition. have
passed kafiir river. There are large
c"mmanGos on either side of the rail-
way The hurghers say they will have
2o0o men. They probably intend to
join the other force in camp, last nrht,
seven miles from the cape Colony Dor
der
The MOddcr river station master re-
ports that firing has been heard in the
direction Of Kimberley ana the station
master AT Belmont teleGraphs that a
force ~ Beers is advancing southwark.
FioWerdoW. the engine driver Of capt.
\ slitt's train which was dcrailcd and
buniharicd by the Beers states that il
thu train had returned when warning
was received that the Beers held the
line it could easily have made its way
back 10 Maribogo. but capt. Nesbitt in
sisted upon an endeavor being made to
reach Mafcking.
when the pilot engine was derailcd."
NiNl 4 i'Mtl btN- wv spent 4 HILL nDuE
trying to replace it On the track That
the Beers commenced firing and sew
rral mon were wounded. The firing
was kept up all night, but without ef-
feet. The Beers We're careful I'd con
rentrate their fire upon the engine so as
to save the armored carriage ana am
munition trucks. At dawn they com
menced to lombard the cars es-
capped by crawling a mile and half On
my belly in the sand.
when both engines were destroyed
Capt. Neshitt exhibited flags of truce
but the Beers continued their firing for
another quarter Of an hour. There is
20 doubt that all the others on the
train are prisoners ana that the car
'iage and the ammunition intact fell
INTO the hands Of the Beers. Flower
low was fCarfully bruised.
There is an unconfrmed rumor tina
he imperial forces intercepted body
If Transvaal Beers who We're attempt
ng to join the Eoer forces at Modder
liver, and that heavy engagement
occurred at Spytsfontein station, south
If Kimberley
The rumor that a heavy engagement
lad occurred at Spysfontein is without
nave received a dispatch announcing
hat the line was torn up for two miles
beyond the MOdder river. bat 70 men
ion was made Of fighting having oc-
.urred.