The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-24
B0ERSPVT T0ROUT'
One Thousand Casualties in
Battle at Glencoe.
LOSS OF THE BRITISH is 800.
Estimated Losses Of Burghers Placed
at Eight Hundred.
LOSS OF THE BRITISH is 800.
3RIToNs MAKE GALLANT CHARGE.
Boer Position Carried by Infantry Under
Cover of wen-Directed Artillery Fire
Main Line of Retreat Cut oh-Free
State Beers Advancing.

Main Line of Retreat Cut Oh-Free
State Beers Advancing.
GLENCOE, Oct. 20.-The battle yester-
day afternoon has been brilliant sue
cess. The Beers got reverse which
may possibly for a time at any rate,
check all aggressive action. The Brit
ish artillery practice in the early part Of
the day decided the battle, The seizure
of the Dundee hills by the Beers was
surprise, for although the pickets had
been exchanging shots all night, it was
not until shell doomed over into the
town that their presence was discovered.
Then the shells came fast. The hill
was positively alive with Beers, still the
British artillery got to work with mag
nifcent energy and precision, the bat
teries from the camp took up positions
to the south of the town, and after a
quarter of an hour magnificent firing
silenced the guns on the hills. The
correspondent could see shells dropping
among the Boer pieces with remarkable
accuracy, and doing tremendous execu-
ton, for the enemy We're present in
large number. By this time the enemy
held the whole Of the hill behind Smiths
farm and the Dundee Kopje, right away
to the south in which the British in
fantry and cavalry moved at once. The
fight was raging particularly hot at the
valley outside the town. Directly the
Beers guns ceased firing, the infantry
charged. The charge was mag
nificent. The Kings royal rifles
and the Dublin fusileers charge of
the position was a magnificent sight.
The Boer fire was not as deadly as might
have been. Indeed, the hill was al
most inaccessible to the storming party,
and any hesitation would have lost the
day. The enemy's guns, so far as the
correspondent could see, Were all aban-
doned, for the Beers had no time to re-
move them. A stream of fugitives
poured down the hillside into the valley,
while the battle went on with no abate-
ment. General Symons was wounded
early in the action and the command
Went 10 MAYOR 1ulo.s ln6 BOerS, as
they fled, We're followed by the cavalry,
mounted infantry and artillery. The
direction was to the eastward.
Some say that four, and some five
guns were captured. The Boer artillery
fire was weak. Although the enemy's
position was carried shortly after noon,
the firing continued all afternoon.
The final rush was made with a tri-
umphant YELL and as the British troops
charged to close quarters, the enemy
turned and fled, leaving all their inn
pediments and guns behind them in
their flight. While this was going on,
one battery Of artillery, the Eighteenth
Hussars and the mounted infantry,
with part of the Leicester regiment,
f, got on the enemy's flank and as the
Beers streamed wildly down the hills,
making for the main road, they found
their retreat had been cut off, but they
rallied for while and there
was severe fighting, with considerable
loss to each side. Many of the enemy
surrendered. A rough estimate places
the British loss at 300 killed and
wounded and the Beers at 300.