The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-30
/ WAS THE REAL THING
WELCOME TO LONDON OF THE I'M
PERIAL CITY VOLUNTEERS
WAS WARM
WORSE THAN SOUTH AFRICA
Casualties Among Spectators More
Numerous Than the Corps Sus-
tanned While Campaigning
Against the Beers

LONDON. Oct 29.--The City Imperial
volunteers, who arrived at Southampton
from South Africa Saturday, on the
British transport Aurania, reached here
by train this morning, marched through
London, along streets packed by thou
sands, and received a tumultuous greet
ing. Such a demonstration was probably
never before evoked for such a small
body of volunteers.
With the exception that the volunteers
were rather Drowned there was little in
their appearance to indicate that they
were returning from hard campaign.
Their new khaki kits, served out at
Southampton, gave the men a disappoint-
ingly spick and span hook though the
lack of alignment, irregularity of march
ing and the frequent substitution of
canes for lost rifles, sufticed to dis
tinguish them from the volunteers fresh
from the training camps
A captured Boer flag, carried in the
center of the column, elected great en-
thusiasm, thunderous cheers goirg up as
this first real trophy of victory was borne
triumphantly through the crowds. A
slight 6rizzling rain, which fell as the
procession proceeded, by no means de-
tracted from the warmth of the reception
extended to the troops.
WORSE THAN A BATTLE.
ageable and the police and soldiers were
quite unable to stem the ugiy rushes.
The crush of the populaee became so ter
rible at the marble arch that the people
broke through the Gordon and when the
field was again cleared forty persons re-
quiring the aid of ambulance surgeons
were left lying on the ground, several
of them suffering from serious injuries.
In narrow Fleet street the crowd broke
down all the barriers and sightseers,
soldiers, police and city imperial volun-
teers were mixed up in a confused mass,
from which The volunteers had to be
finally extricated in single file.
A fractions cavalry horse stampeded
the crowd at Ludgate circus and fifty
persons were injured who had to be at
tended by the ambulance corps.
Along the whole length of Fleet street,
the scenes could only be likened unto
continual football scrimmage, but it was
even more exciting. Shrieks and groans
filled the air, people were hurled to the
ground and trampled upon. Life guards
on horseback were swept off and lost IN
the struggling mass of humanity after
impotent struggles to stem the pressure
of the semi-panic stricken mob.
The Prince of Wales came to town and
viewed the procession from Marlborough
house The other royal personages
watching the little band of men in kha-
Duchess of Argyle and Prince Edward of
SaXe-Weimer
In addition to the City Imperial volun-
teers themselves, there were in the pro-
cession the bands of twelve volunteer
regiments and 24,000 regulars and volun-
teers lined the route.
After an eight hours march, broken by
a sermon at ST. Pauls' cathedral by the
bishop of Stepney, and an address by
or1 CI1i11 he
volunteers sat down to a course dinner
at the headquarters of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery of London, where
Lord Wolseley and many other notable
persons received and addressed them.
MANY KILLED OUTRIGHT.
The members of the corps then sepa-
rated. They had to muff1e themselves in
their overcoats and to use other disguises
in order to avoid recognition by the
crowds. AS it was, several were nearly
pulled to pieces by the rough emb7acings
and handshakings of drunken men.
The list of casualties among the vel
coming multitude was longer than that of
the whole corps in its twenty-six engage
ments in South Africa. Partial returns
from the hospitals and police stations in
dicate that more than 200 were badly
hurt, eight and possibly ten being killed
outright.
There were 1900 police and $4,000 troops
on duty along the line of march, but they
We're unable to manage the crowds Wom-
en- and girls tainted and were trampled
under foot. Stands overloaded with SIGHT
seers fell in. Twelve persons out of thir-
ty, who were riding on top of a mail
wagon, whose wheels gave way, had their
bones broken. Two children were killed.
A man who was leaning over the parapet
of the roof of a four-story building lost
his balance and fell upon group of
women, killing one and hurting two
others, but walked away by himself, ap-
parently uninjured.
Many of the soldiers on the line of
march We're hurt in combats with the