The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-21
THE DAYS FIGHTING.
Beers Get Reverse Which May
Check Them Tor While.

GLENCOE CAMP. oct. 2O.-Afternoon.
The battle to-day has been a brilliant
success. The Beers got reverse which
may possibly for time at any rate,
check all aggressive action.
The British artillery practice in the car
ly part of the day decided the battle.
The seizure OF Dundee HI by the Beers
was a surprise, for although the plckets
had been exchanging shots all night, 10
was not until a shell doomed over the
town into camp that their presence was
q scOvered. Then the shells came fast.
The Hi was positively alive with the
swarmng Beers, still the British artillery
got TO work with magnificent energy and
precision.
The batteries from the camp took mp
positions To the south Of the town and
after a quarters OF an hours magnificent
firing silenced the guns oh the hills.
GOOD SHOOTING.
The correspondent could see shells drop
ping among the Boer pieces with re-
markable accuracy and doing tremendous
execution. for the enemy were present in
very large numbers. and in places were
considerably exposed. BY this time the
Smiths Farm and the Dundee KOpje.
right away to the south, in which dlrec-
ton the British infantry and cavalry
moved at once.
The fighting ragged particularly hot at
the valley outside the town. Directly
the Boer guns ceased firing General Sy-
mons ordered the infantry to move on the
position The infantry charge was mag
nihcent. The sforming of the position by
the Kings Royal Rifles and the Dublin
Fusileers was one of the most magnih-
cent sights ever witnessed. The firing Of
the Beers was not so deadly as might
have been expected from troops occupy
ing such an excellent position, but the
infantry lost heavily going up the hill.
and only the cOnsummately brilliant way
IN which General SymOns had trained
them 10 fighting of this kind saved them
from beng swept away. Indeed the hill
was almost Inaccessible to the stormir
party. and any hesitation would have lost
the day. The enemy's guns. so far as the
correspondent could see were all aban-
dOned, for the Beers had no time TO re-
move them. A stream Of fugitiVes poured
down the hillside into the valley where
the battle went on with no abatement.
General Symons was wounded early in
the action and the command then de-
voived on Major Yule. il is feared Cen
eral Symons is fatally hurt The enemy
as they fed were followed by the cavalry
mounted infantry and artillery The di-
rection taken was TO the eastward. Al
the latest reports the cavalry had not re-
turned.
ARTILLERY WEAK.
Some say that four and some say five
| guns were captured. The l}oer artillery
/ firing was weak. 4 lot Of plugged shells
were used.
/ Although the cuemys position was car
/ ried soon after one O'Clock, scattered fir
/ ms went on almost all the afternoon.
| The British losses are very severe. but
| those of the Beers are much heavier
The final rush was made with a trium-
! plant yell. and as the British troops
charged to close quarters the enemy
tuI ed and fed. leaving all their impedI-
menta and guns behind them.
While this was going on one battery Of
artillery, the Nineteenth Hussars. and
| the mounted infantry, with a part OF
the Leicester Regiment got on the enc
! my's flank. and as the Beers streamed
| wildly down the hills, making for the
main roa O. they found their retreat had
been cut of, but they rallied for while
/ and there was severe fighting. with con
I siderable loss 10 each side. Many Of IN,
enemy surrendered.
a rough estimate places the British loss
/ at 80 killed or wounded. and that Of th'
Beers at 500.
BOERS NONPLUSSED.
A newspaper correspondent states tina
through his glasses during the hshuus TO
day. ne noticed how much the Boer
seemed to be nonplussed by the tactics o
the Imperial troops especially OF th'
weil-driled swift-moylng hOT5emen. Tn
enemy are still. as OF Old, a mob The
nre without horses and forage. and man.
Of them rely for food on what they cal
obtain by looting. Their animals az
mostly I'm O wretched condition.
IL is understood that before to-day
battle several Beers had left their com
mandos and gone home TO their farms, an.
many others are now likely 10 follow.
The movements OF the Commands Il
the Utrecht district are somewhat mys
terious. II is supposed they have som
idea OF getting around between this plac
and Ladysmith. Many Beers are reporte
to be falling back on their old positions
They have been raising 4 series OF FORTH
cations between Sandspruit and Dannhau
ser. their object being to contest the gran
advance of the Imperial troops.
Near Sandsoruit Camp they have
Lager with several pieces Of artiller,
and another behind Volksrust There ar
guns on Mount Pogwani. overlookin
Iaings' Mex and Ingogo Heights az
fortified. earthworks have been throw
; I'D and guns left at various places on N
, way souh.
GENERAL SYMONS' WOUND.
General Symons was shot through u
! thigh. but no bones were broken. lie
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