Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-15

ard said Major Sampson. The man
tiled, his heart and viii were good
! enough, but he failed physically. Soon
atterward sampson saw him rushing to
the front with all his might, blood
pouring from wound on his face.
Where are the Boers2' he cried. Let
me get at them Another light horse
man did not know he was wounded Tin
the abdomen) until the next day He
thought that the slight pain he suffered
was doe to drinking beer on an empty
stomach after the fight was over.
zone Dutchman was found moaning
and crying under a thorn bush. I'm
dead. I'm dead he cried; its that
dreadful lyddlte.' He was told that no
lyddite had been used in the battle
L know IL was, he said. because |
read II In the Standard and Dlggers
News A quaint reason. He was ex-
amined and punched all over and found
to be not so much as scratched. I
know he said, but I'm dead. III die
soon. The Standard and Diggers' says
that lyddlte kills you without hurting
you IL Is singular fact, by the way,
that Of the wounded and prisoners the
vast majority spoke English for choice,
OAif iiitt lAilAutlAA must w Netus W llfl
Mr.. Pearse was looking after a wound
cd man, and asking what he could do
for him, the man said, Get under
cover, sir. or they'll kill you a Cor
don private told me he did not mind
his wound, but he wished that II had
come four minutes later so that he
might have seen the job through
by the way, Capt. Trayers NJ the
Devons was grazed on the knuckle by
a bullet at the same moment as another
smashed his water bottle; and a COM
panion Devonian had the inside Of his
right sleeve ripped.
"The Gordons had reached the brow
Of the kopje and the imperial light
horse were little ahead Of them.
'Ye're gluttOns for the fighting said a
Gordon. but we've got yer bellyful the
day Mon said another there's lac
doobt that this is yer Dargai.' The Cor
dons who were not at Dargal are as
proud Of 1t, by the way, as the Gordons
who were there,
when the cease fire sounded the
Gordons were standing in far too close
a Inca splendid target, Of which the
enemy did not fail 20 take advantage.
For some unexplained reason some one
used the work retire In the hearing
OF bugler | have since discovered
that the retire was sounded by a BOer
with bugle near the Gordons, close
enough 10 cause the regiment TO think
the order was meant for them. The
same trick was tried on the Dubllns at
Talana without success. Retire be
adjectived he sailor didn't say-and
promptly sounded the advance. In they
went the light horse on their right.
cursing for al they were worth, curses
not loud but deep Man fell behind
man. but the line never wavered nor
broke till the bayonets got among the
Beers. As one man prodded "A Boer he
remarked I'm a broad Scots accent, I
remember Majuba you'll remember
Elandslaagte' / don't think the vic
tins memory Of Elandslasgte was very
prolonged. 'YOn's for Jock, said anoth-
er with a thrust, adding with a second
thrust, and yon's for mysel'
"The Beers could not stand up 20 cold
steel. They knelt and held up their
hands and cried mercy. Mercy they
got. but In some instances they re-
turned treachery and got justice.
Trooper White Of C company. Imperial
light horse was running beside Capt.
Mullins and a couple OF troopers when
three Beers held up their hands. Don't
fire, said Capt. Mullins. A fourth Boer,
standing close 20 the three, then aimed
ut Capt Mullins, but hit Trooper White,
a wound from which he has
since died. Then he shot Capt. Mullns
through the shoulder The others |
picked up their rifles and attempted 10 |
get In their shots before the reward |
Of their treachery could be inflicted. |
But they failed. A Manchester soldier |
told me that an old Boer prayed for |
quarter 10 his pal The pal gave a. |
his bayonet; but after he
had passed on the old Boer put a bullet |
through his head. There was a piece Of
cold steel IN the old Beers ribs before
very long,
DEATH OF CHIsHoLME.
OF Scott chlsholme. the colonel Of the
Imperial light horse the Standards
correspondent writes:
mo death has been more severely felt
than the colonerS He was good man
aud a good soldier. brave 10 the point
of recklessnCss, a wonderfully inspirat-
Ing leader and. as Judged from about