Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-26

his men, who really needed none. Sud
denly somebody showed a white flag. |
Col. Hamilton tried to stop the fighting |
but a party of beers, enscOnced on
a conical hill and caring nothing about |
their comrades, took advantage of the |
lull to deliver heavy fire. The Cor
don highlanders and Manchesters were
rendered more savage than ever by
this and redoubled their energy, for
the beers in the hOllows were deliver
ing thanking fire. Over the Tommies
went and got wonderful quantities of
loot-from silk hats and frock coats to
beaded Kaffir lOin cloths. 1t was
sight to see them loaded with their
booty Although we gave the pris-
Oners the best seats around the camp
fires, many of the poor wounded had to-
! lie out on the bare hillsides, where
they spent terrible night crying: For
! Gods sake give us water. Get a doctor
! for us. Out here are British and bO-
ers.' One man fired round after round
from his rifle to attract attention to
his whereabouts, for the field of battle
| covered miles. The beers say the kits
of the Gordon highlanders made them
conspicuous targets" The Daily News
says: The approaching fall of dark
ness was a great factor in the last
phases of the fight, making the capture
of the beers position at once absolute
ly imperative. By this time the crack
of the rifles and the rattle Of maXims
had become absolutely furious. Our
men understood the necessity well
enough and nothing 10th, they
exposed themselves CALAMITY in their
resolution to drive the beers from their
last stand. Officers, sergeants and
men fell in lines, but nothing checked
the fierce onslaught Among the Cor
don highlanders and . in the fighting
line throughout was Lord Ava, at
tached especially to the brigadier's
staff. The final rush was a sight to
see. With levelled bayonets, cheering
as they went, our men sprang over the
boulders that were strewn at their
feet. The beers, recoiIing, fired wildly
and then dashed down the rugged steep
to escape the humiliation threatening
them. Some, desperately determined
on killing, returned to the Mex in the
. rear of where the highlanders had
= crouched behind some boulders. These
men fired on the ambulance men at
work among the wounded"
Wounded Doing Well.
, London, Oct. 24.-The war office has
;received the following dispatch from
Gen. Sir Geo. Stewart White, British
commander of Natal, dated at Lady
smith Camp, 4.45 Monday: Gen. Yule
photographed me yesterday evening that
the wounded at Dundee were doing
, WE'LL This dispatch partly relieves
the anxiety regarding Glencoe, as the
British there had evidently not been at
tackled up to last evening.
Prisoners at Ladysmith.
Durham, Natal, Oct 24-An official
dispatch from Ladysmith says that
about 200 boer prisoners have been
marched into town, including Gen.
ben ViljOen, Gen. Jan Kock and Carl
Schiel.
Beers Say Ten Killed.
Pretoria, Oct. 24.-The Transvaal
government received a dispatch Satur-
day morning from Commandant Gen.
Pet Joubert in which he says: Com
mandant Lucas Meyer had an engage
ment at Dundee. He made a plan of
campaign with Commandant Erasmus
by messenger. Erasmus, however,
failed to appear. 1t is estimated that
the British lost heavily. Our forces
suffered but, owing to the mist, it has
been impossible to get all details. 1t
is reported that 10 of our force were
killed and % wounded.
Dispatch Was Erroneous.
London, Oct. 24-Later advices show
that the Glencoe dispatch of Monday
morning, telling of an attack made by
the boer forces under General Lucas
! Meyers on the British position, referred
to Fridays battle. although it was
dated Oct. % and spoke of the fight as
having occurred Saturday, was wrong
! The skirmish was apparently an
affair of the outposts as Mr.. Balfour
! said in the house of commons Monday
night that the war office had no news
of any serious engagement at Glencoe
since Friday.
O'Brien Suspended.
London, Oct. 24.-During the course
of Mondays proceedings in the house
of commons, while discussing the re-
port of the supplementary estimates,
Patrick O'Brien, Parnellite member for
Kilkenny city, declared that the hands
/ of the British secretary Of state for the |
colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, were as
much stained with blood as those OF
any murderer who ever mounted a |
scaffold. The speaker, William Court |
Gulley, called upon O'Brien to with |
draw the remark but he refused to do |
so, whereupon the house by vote of |
316 to 26 resolved to suspend him and |
he left, remarking, You had better
bring up another army corps unless
you want it somewhere else"
Decentralization and Famine.
Kimberley, Oct. 24.-(DelayeO
is we'll here and there is no fighting in
progress News received from Dundee Il