The record-union., 1899-11-18
BUTLER CONFIRMS REPORT OF
CHIEvELEY DISASTER.


lowing is, the purport:
The officer commanding the troops
at Estcourt reports at midday that an
armed train left Estcourt this morning
with company of the Dublin Fusileers
and a company of Durham Volunteers.
North of Freere they encountered a
| party of Beers and began to withdraw.
While retiring some of the trucks were
derailed. The Dublins turned out and
advanced toward the enemy, while the
rest of the train appears to have re-
turned without them to Estcourt.
The officer commanding the troops
reports that he was sending mounted
troops in order to cover their with
| drawal, but that about 100 are miss
| ing
] A special dispatch from Durham says
| that another complete armored train
has been sent to Estcourt to, replace the
one disabled by the Beers Wednesday.
| THE WOUNDED DOING WE'LL
| ESTCOURT (NataD, Thursday, noon,
Nov. ia correspondent who has just
visited the Sanatorium Hospital says
all the armored train wounded are do
| ing WE'LL
Captain Wylie, in an interview. said
/
for having surrounded him with bouid-
ers to protect him from the rife fire
when laying helpless and wounded. Tod
even lay down beside the officer to cheer
/ him up. A shell landed among the rro-
tecting boulders, scattering them with
earth. but Captain Wylie sustained no
further injury. But for Tod he would
have been killed.
| Coxyocol man ocoo,o7
When Winston Churchill requested
Captain Wylie to call for volunteers to
! remove the upset trucks, bullets. it is
said, were dropping on the train like
rain.' The men throughout stuck to
their work, responding to the noble ex-
ample set by Churchill and Lieutenant
Franklin until the line was cleared.
| Churchill actually left with the en-
CINE, but he got out at the next station,
/ F'rere, took a rifle from 3 soldier, say
| ing he could not leave the wounded and
walked away in the direction OF the
Beers.
Sergeant Hassett of the Dublin Fusi-
Tiers behaved with the greatest gall
lantry. He took charge of the firing
party and stood up unf1inchingly dur
ing the Beers hot fire. His example
I
Beers at bay by volleying.
Captain Haldane fell early in the en-
gagement, shot through the shoulder.
Lieutenant Franklands conduct is
highly praised. He exhibited great
GOODNESS during the critical period He
is reported missing.
! Copeland of the Durham Volunteers
was crushed to death by the deraiIed
1 fyI16 nd
the head, but is doing we'll
Lieutenant Alexander had an excit-
ing experience. A Fusileer who had
been wounded in the arm by shell
which shattered the limb swung around
and hit Alexander in the neck, almost
smothering him with blood. The she'll
burst in front of the Lieutenant on a
level with his face, and he staggered
blinded for a moment The next in
slant he saw his comrade lying dead at
his feet, while he himself was un-
harmed
Private Kavanaugh of the Dublins
performed splendid work. When the
British firing line fell back he. time af-
ter time, rallied the men, volleyed and
prevented the horseshoe line Of the
Beers from enveloping the train.
| OOLR SdELLS REACH BRITISH
BATTERY.
LONDON, Nov 1.-THE following
censored dispatch from Pretoria gives
| details of the engagement referred to
in the Associated Press dispatch from
Pretoria of Wednesday, November 18th:
THE Free Staters had taken up a Lo-
sition on a small hill when an English
battery advanced and attacked them.
sending fiery hail of shells on the hill
for an hour, when the Transvaal cam
non put some shells right in the midst
OF the battery, sending the English to
cover behind the hill. Two Burghers
were killed and six We're wounded.
when the British fell back ON Lady
smith several shells exploded among
them, but the execution done could net
! be seen.
AT midnight the Afrikander cannon
on the hills surrounding the two open
ed nre simultaneously on Ladysmitl,
turning the quiet ard darkness of night
| INTO lurid Inferno of whistilng,
shrleklng shells, Speeding from all parts
OF the compass to The doomed city.
| several buildings on fire We're seen
from Buluwan Hill. During the day
/ the troops left the city deserted and
sought shelter on the edge of the bill
to escape the death dealing Shells"
/ The dispatch from Pretoria also sovs
that the prisoners at that place include
/ the Eighteenth Hussars. 4 officers and
VI non commissioned officers and men.
OF the Dublin Fusileers officers and -
non commissioned officers and men. the
Irish Fusileers 10 officers and 533 nom
/ commissioned officers and men: the
Gloucesters ii officers and 305 non-com
Eissloned officers and men, the Artii
lefy . officers and 90 on-commjssioned
ofncers and men: the Rifles . officers
and 81 n-commissioned officers and
r'en' the Dragons, / man; the Natal
police l man; Political 62 mer. siclx %
men.
The dispatch adds: 1.-THE trains are
| working excellently from Pretoria 10
l daysmith. The Boers nave arunlo
1ood, but are short of clothes. BOOTS and
mackintoshes."
BRITISH ADVANCE WILL BE CON
TESTED STEP BY STEP.
! LONDON, Nov 1.-THE serious and
unexpected disaster to the Fstconr+
armored train on the eve of the forward
movement for the relief of Ladvsn,itb
mas apparently convinced the British
.nat the advance will be contested step
by step. The Beers are seemingly
sWarming south of Colenso While a
large force has come from the neigh
bofhood of Ladysmith. a much larrer
Iorce mas arrived from elsewhere. and
VIII probably turn out to aid General
Schaikburger'S corps The Beers owl