The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-15
LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
GIVE INTERESTING ACCOUNTS oI.
ENGAGEMENTS AND BATTLES.
soldiers write Home Of Their ia.
pericuccH In Action-Whnt "a
Surgeon Hnd 10 say.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press)
London January 6.--Lcttors from the sol.
diors lighting against the Boors are re.
ceiyed' IN large numbers. and Ia many case.
lust as intersting as the accounts by trained
war eorrespondents. medical officer do
scrihing the battle Of Modder river writes
"a lot OF the North Lancashire men were
horribly wounded. I turned over sergeant
black In the face dead One man was brought
10 who had been struck by a shell frag-
ment. face mutilated, throat cut aud chest
lacciated Oh God The sight was gicken-
ing. blood everywherei Very few OF our men
being wounded. ] went out near sunset IA
assist the Hghlandcrs. They hBd been iylng
OH day under that frghtfui sun and thciI
wounded were still there. No stretchcr bear
cft could advance, as they were all shot At,
They shouted to me to crawl the GROUND.
Although most OF tho firing was over, Their,
was still three or four Boers with express
rifles and explosive bullets who were uun Z
cover and who Kept picking off our men.
Some men utterly collapsed and al ! coll1
do was give aid to their wounds ] was under
FIRE all the time. bullets dancing around me.
felt kind Of solemn disregard as had
been exposed 70 greater dangers before
In letter written to his father from Mool
river on December q, an officer Ia The
Queen's Royal west Surrey regiment says;
Against an enemy Ike the Beers infantry
Is useless. The Beers have spies everywhere
and as they are well mounted they eau
move away hours before our infantry can
get within striking distance on The other
hand, they will never attack, aud when We
advance toward Pretoria, commanders VIII
be left All over the country loeting and burn
Ing farms The only people who have "a
chance with them arr the local volunteers
II the government would only raise about
1000 volunteers and send out lot Of mounted
infantry. We might work with thu local vol
nnteers and these isolated Boer forces would
soon be wiped out. AZ present we are help
less. as they mako rings around u.s."
The special correspondent Of the Cape Ar.
gus thus describes a bombardment Of KIM
berloy What will probsbiy he handed down
IN the annals OF history 10 Boer posterty as
thu bombardmont Of Kimberley probably DC
CURED Tuesday. November 2 and II ever the
farcical eirments were Introduced into such
gerIous buainees as war the puerlie Al
tcmpta to rare Kimberley can surely lay
claim 10 u The Beers bad two guns mount
I'd. ono at fhoiz Mex. trained on the Premier
mine AZ Messeiton a. range Of something
like 500 yards. and the other on Spcytfon
teia quite 700 yards distant A couple ol
shots were fired between 3 and O'Clock ~
tho morning and then the Beers deslsiel
until about TO- wnen one gun AZ Sholz Mex
apparently q nine FOUNDER. hring a French
she'll opened fire on WeHelton. The FIRE
however. proved quite harmless nearly al
the shotr falling IN the debris hraps And
our guns ~ Wosteltor. replying and quickly
j getting the range. induced thc enemy U
erase hiring and they clcarsd OF sboui noon
! So liftle WAS thought Of the Bocrs' Ere that
! The aiatm waE not even sounded and husl,
ness was carried on iuss ihe same Thus
] srdfd thf hou1ber1meut Of Kimberley s,
I little alarm did u cause that inc men 10 tn
/ rrdouhts were actually PLAYING cricket Anl
I puois while i WAS going on
The following IS from letter from . So
gent IN the colcsirssm Gaarls. who u viii
J Me,haeus column, He was at The battle Q