The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-01

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GENERAL WHITES DISPATCH.
Partial List Of the Officers Killed and
Wounded-Gencral Outline of the
Disastrous Battle.
LONDON, Oct. S1.--The following is
the text of General Whites dispatch to
the war office:
..LADYSMITH, October 30. 1926 p.
MI have to report disaster to the
column sent BY me to take a position
on hill TO guard the left flank Of the
troops. In these operations to-day the
Royal Irish Fusilers. No. 10 Mountain
Battery and the Gloucestershire regi-
ment were surrounded in the hills and
after losing heavily had TO capitulate.
The casualties have not yet been ascer-
tanned.
~ man of the Fusilers, employed as
n hospital orderly. came In under q flag
Of truce with letter from the survivors
! Of the column. who asked for my as
sistancc to bury the dead. fear there
Is no doub. of the truth of the report
| formed q plar in the carrying out Of
which the disaster occurred. and am
alone responsible for the plan. There
Is no blame whatever to the troops. as
the position was untenablc."
General White in subsequent dis
patch says: 1.-The following Is list Of
the officers taken prisoners to-day:
Irish Fusillers-Colonel Carleton,
Major Mum. Major Kincaid. Captain
Burrowes, Captain Rice, Captain Sill
Yer, Lieutenant Heard. Lieutenant
Southey. Lieutenant Phibbs. Lieutenant
McGregor. Lieutenant Holmes, Lieu
tenant Kelly. Lieutenant Dooner.i Lieu
tenan@ Kentish. Lieutenant Klneahan,
Lieutenant Judewine Chaplain Matth.
ews. OF the above Captains Rice and
Silver and Lieutenant Dooner were
wounded.
"Gloucestershire Regimen. = Major
Humphrey Major Capel-Cure. Major
Wallace, Captain Duncan, Captain
Conner, Lieutenant Bryant. Lieutenant
Nesbit. Lieutenant Inghar,. Lieutenant
Davy. Lieutenant Knox. Lieutenant
Temple, Lieutenant Radice. Lieutenant
Brerl. Lieutenant Hill. Lieutenant
! Short, Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant
Mackenzie Lieutenant Beasley. Lieu
tenant Gray. or the above Captains
Duncan and Conner were wounded.
Royal Artillery-Major Bryan!
Mounted Battery-Lieutenant Whce.
Ter, Lieutenan: Nugent. Lieutenant
| Moore Lieutenant Webb"
Wholly Unexpected.
While minor reversea were not
wholly unexpected. nothing like the
staggering blow General Jouberr deli'.-
cred to General Whites forces ycster
day was anticipated The full exten. OF
the disaster is not yet acknowledged
II It Is known at the war office. The
loss In effective men must be appallin.- :
to general who Is practically sur
rounded. Two OF the finest British rcgi.
mcnts and mule battery deducted
from the Ladysmith garrison wealsens
1t about fifth OF Its total strength and
alters the whole situation very mate.
rally In favor OF the Beers, who have
again shown themselves stern fighters
and military strategists OF no mean
order. The disaster cost the British
| from SO0 n - "A
screw guns, and. as the Boer artillery
Is already stronger than Imagined. the
capture Of these guns will be greut
help 10 the Beers.
Further news must be awaited before
1t Is attempted to fix the blame where
1t belongs. General White manfully ac-
cepts all responsibility for the disaster,
which, apparently. was at least par
TALLY due the stampeding OF tho mules
with the guns. From the list II will be
seen that AZ officers were made pris-
oners, besides n newspaper correspond
cnt, J. Hyde. The interest In the news
was universal, Dervading all classes
and conditions OF London's populace.
The newspaper extras we're eagerly
read In business houses, In the strcts
and by women In their carriages.
Then there was a rush to the war Of
flee. which, by noon, was surrounded
| with private carriages and hansoms,
while many OF the humber class OF
| people came on foot, NIL waiting and
watching for the names they held dear.
| Never was the old saw, "bad news
travels quickly" better exGmplined
here than to-day. By noon gloom and
bitter sorrow prevailed throughout the
British metropolis.
at the Government Offices.
AT the government Offices no effort
was made 10 conceal the feeling OF dis
may prevailing. One official said TO q
representative OF the Associated Press:
1T Is incSplicable and | am sorry 10
say that It's moral effect Is inestmablc.
| We have lost heavily In many wars
and have had regiments almost wiped
| out. but to have regiments captured,
and by the Beers! It In tcrrlblc!"
| An official OF the war Office said to n
| representative OF the Associated Press:
"The disaster is moro likely due to the
craze OF our younger officers to dis
tlnguish themselves, obtain mention In
| the dispatches and earn the Victoria
| cross than to the fault OF that splendid
Indian veteran. General White. in spite
| OF his nvownl."
Az the dny wore on the crowds
around the war office swellcd to cnor-
nous proportions. and nj Gloucester.
the home OF many Of thpFc engaged,
| the widest excitement prevailed. The
| special editions OF the local newspapers
were speedily exhausted. and the same
| thing occurred at Bristol and other