The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-22

ter of steel, then a moment of sus-
pense and then the cease firing sound
ed. Again and again it sounded, but
the Irish fusiliers We're loath to accept
the call and continued firing for many
minutes. Then it was unconditional
surrender and the men laid down their
arms
The correspondent at Ladysmith of
the same paper, describing the battle
field of Elandslaagte realistically de-
tails the horrors of the war. He
writes:
THE battlefield as it stood on the
Sunday, conveyed sufficient proof of
the severity of the fire. The wounded
had been removed by daylight, but the
burial parties had not arrived to per-
form the last duties to the dead. The
men lay there as they had fallen, sad,
pathetic tribute to the courage of the
British soldier We followed this tragic
Observation-Disclosures Manchesters and
mounted volunteers lay indiscriminate-
ly grouped. Then solitary figures un-
der the stones showed how little the
cover had availed. There were places
where wire fences had impeded the adj
vance. Here the carnage had been
great and one brave fellow, stopped in
death, cut off as he strove to wrench
a post from it's foundations. In the
line of the table land the dead lay
thickest there being the main spot
where the attack had been checked, but
the white flag was already there and
strings of coolies were digging the
trench which so often is the soldiers
resting place.
I'VE rode back to the Boer position
the little kopje upon which Schiel and
mis- 80 men had made their last stand.
The bodies of the Is that had fallen of
the little band were grouped as death
had taken them.
Some lay with heads sunken on their
rifle stocks, fighting to the end. An
other had placed his hat upon promi-
nent stone five yards away and had
died with his fingers pressing a charge
into his magazine. What remained Of
the laager was the litter of shell fire
Tents We're torn and burned, wagons
splintered and overturned, food stuffs,
dead horses and explosives lay in
wrecked profusion. There remained no
doubt that our shell fire had played
| upon the position with full effect. But
as one of the wounded prisoners told
me later in the day, there was no room
| to retreat, the extended files of the
Manchester regiment overlapping the
| reverse of the kopje, sweeping the
northern foOtpath, while the rain of
| shrapnel destroyed every living thing
| on the western slopes. And the scene
| at the farm house, at the foot of the
| ridge on the far side, bore out this
| statement. 1t was here that the Beers
had brought their horses for cover and
carcasses lay piled on every side. The
slaughter among the horses must have
been almost as heavy as that of the
men,
Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Tele-
graph war correspondent, supplies a
full account of the annihilation Of the
armOred train contingent at Chieveley,
when Winston Churchill was captured.
The train, 1t appears, with the excep-
ton of the engine, tender ana two
trucks, was badly wrecked by the re-
moval of the fish plates, and the T2
men Of the Dublin fusiliers and the 95
men of the Durham light infantry, to
say nothing of five blue Jackets from
the Tartar, were thrown out.
Captain Haldane of the Gordon High
landers who commanded the party, raj
lied his bruised and shaken men and
amid hail of bullets from the Beers
began to clear the line, while others
We're pouring deadly Volleys into the
almost unseen Beers, hidden behind the
| rocks about 1000 yards off. The blue
Jackets, bravely commanded by their
petty officer who was the incarnation
of coolness, got their seven-pounder into
action. They sent in two, if not three,
we'll aimed shells at the Beers. several
lluIuTeuS Ol "fiblH llHeu Tie lllllS. JuSl
then a shot from the enemy's three
FOUNDER hit the small naval seven
FOUNDER, knocked gun and carriage
onto the veldt and wounded several of
the seamen.
The Daily Graphic's correspondent
describing a visit to the hulk of the
Penelope at Somers' bay, where the
Boer prisoners are confined, underta-
ken in the company of Colonel Stowe,
the limited States consul general
writes:
THE majority of the prisoners are
sleek, contented and Indifferent. They
| told me they thought the war would
| be picnic; that they would rush Natal
before the imperial troops arrived;
that England would be involved in for
eign complica tions and that they would
be able to dictate terms from Pieter-
maritzburg and Durham. They thought
to view the Cape peninsula as con-
querers not from a prison ship. Col
| onel Schiel steps with difficulty. His
| wound in the thigh is nearly healed,
| but he still requires the use Of stocks
| Schiel is a typical soldier Of fortune
grizzly gray hair, cropped close, ag-
gressive military mustache. shrewd,
gray eyes, a thick neck, a figure still
unmistakably active, but tending to
stoutness. AS to bearing, he is genial
man of the world He introduced us
to some of his brother officers, includ-
| ing Captain Van Leggelo, a henevo-
| lent. good looking cosmopolitan of
! kindly expression and modest nein
| who told us he was born in Holland
| educated in Germany and had sister
! in st. Louis.
Recruits for the Beers.
New York, Dec. 21.--In the steerage
| of the French liner rAuquitaaine,