The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-19
ARMORED TRAIN DISASTER
Detailed Story Shows Many
Cases # GaIIantry
KlMBERLYS ( CLOSELY BESElGED
Town = ore Need of Help. and win
y Receive it from the Fx-
ition Now Forming at =
Orange River Camp

Kimberley, Saturday, November 11.-via
runner to Orange River.)-The Beers bonn
barded Kimberley again at 5:15 o'clock this
morning, shelling the town briskly until
6:15 a. m. Subsequently they maintained
desultory fire until 7:15 o'clock. One shell
killed a Kaffir woman in the street and an
other fell on the roof of a bar, partly
wrecking the building but not injuring any
of the inmates. Six shells were fired
against the works but fell in the reservoir.
Several artilerymen In the fort there had
shaves. Our guns replied at long range.
and at least two shells are believed to havo
found their mark, as the fire of the Beers
in that direction was effectually silenced.
The bombardment freshened from 10
o'clock until noon, the firing being directed
at Otto's kopje. whence our patrol at dawn
had ired upon Boer detachment, knock
ing down six of their horses. Our casual
ties were one policeman mortally wounded
and light horseman slightly wounded.
The patrol fired coolly and steadily until
the Beers dispersed. A second patrol was
engaged, but meeting superior force, was
compelled to retire.
The Beers are again busy blowing up
! railroad culverts.
| The heavy bomba rdment was renewed at
$40 o'clock this afternoon from two posi-
tons. We did not reply The enemy's
shells are falling harmlessly, though the
London, November 1S.-The latest news
from the seat of war in South Africa Is
from one viewpoint favorable to the Brit
ish showing that Kimberley is able to hold
its own against the Boer bombardment, and
that Estcourt is also. in a position to beat
back an attack by the Boer forces now
| facing 1t. On the other hand the advices
! pay testimony to the ceaseless activity. OF
| the burghers on the Free State frontier,
| and their determination to cut off relief for
Ladysmlth and IL possible to isolate or
| capture Estcourt, which is the nearest town
| to Ladysmith still held by the British
| A number of small Boer commandos from
the east and west are converging on Est
! court and the railroad just south of that
| place The Beers already aggregate at
ledSL ZV,UVU, Will lcW gums WhlSh lhty
+, evidently mean to mount on hills, dominat-
| ing any advance north from Estcourt,
| where General Hilyard is still commanding.
Even with the strong relief column now
| hurryng up from Durham, the British will
| have tough job to pierce the Boer forces
thrown across the roads to Ladysmith;
while cossihg the Tugela river on pontoon
bridges, in the face of the Boer artillery
and rifle fire from the northern ridges COM
manding the rivers, will prove one of the
stiffest enterprises of the war.
Individual Gailantry
| The full story of the armored train dfs-
J aster has brought into relief a number Of
| cases of individual gallanty. Among them
| is that of a crack rifle shot named Caegr-
head who furnished the range at three diff
I-ferent points for the crew of the train and
kept firing until his trigger was shot away
and an old veteran named Crow was con-
| spcuous for bravery In helping to clear the
/ derailed trucks. Winston Churchill, amid
| a hail of bullets, turned to Crow and shook
his hand. calling him a brave old man.
| Another was that of volunteer
| named Wright, who during the firing,
| kneSt in the regulation postdon, remaining
| cool and collected and cracking "a joke with
| every SHOT, thus keeping his comrades from
| becoming f1urrfed, while all me time he was
| suffering from a wound, his right eur clav-
| ing been Shot away
Corporal Dicldie, though wounded and ly-
| ing his back, encouraged the men by
| Shouting, Give EN- beans, boys
From the Free State frontier comes news
that reinforcements are rapidly arriving at
| the Orange river camp, where Lord Meth
eun is hurriedly preparing to push a relief
| force on to Kimberley.
The Scots Guards arrived from Capetown
| on Thursday, and the relief force ought
| now to be almost strong enough to tackle
! the Beers beseiging the town.
|
ASSAULT ON ESTCOURT