The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-11
TEARING UP TRACK.

Beers After Roberts Vital Line Of
Railway = Latter an Unknown
Quantity for Past Three Days-NO
Important Developments.
LONDON, June II, $3.50 a. m.-Tha
Beers have torn up twenty-one milea
Of Lord Roberts vital line Of railway
between America Siding and Roedeval
1t is a bold raid and vexatious, but Il
does not dlsQuiet the military authorit-
les as yet. for they expect General
Keiiy-KenRy to drive of the maraud-
ers and to reopen the line.
The rapldity of the advance Of LORD
Roberts cannot have permitted 10 ac-
cumulate large reserves Of stores,
Therefore an interruption Of the rail-
way. even for q week, must emharraS9
the army and may bring the forward
operations to a standstill.
Nothing Heard From "Bohs."
Nothing has been heard from Lord
Roberts for three days. This raid on
the railway. the strenuous opposition to
General Rumble and the nimble escape
OF Commandant General BothR's diviS-
ion have forced the war Office observers
TO the reluctant conclusion that the
war is not yet over, although even the
occasional civilian Boer sympathlger
cannot see how the Beers will be able
to change the result.
General Butler is in BOer territory.
Dispatches of correspondents with him,
filed yesterday at sunset, describe the
corps as camping at Gansolei, close to
the point where the frontiers Of the
Free State, the Transvaal and Natal
'The British marched eight miles
yesterday" says u Reuter- correspond
ent, before encountering any 0pposi-
tIon. The Beers VINO had one gun
Withdrew under heavy ordnance fire 70
ridge Just ahead Of the camp.
This long range, running sklrmiBh
will doubtless be renewed this morn
ing. General Butler is expected to
make rapid progress now and to throw
the weight Of twenty thousand men In.
to Lord Roberts Transvaai ceHiblna-
tlons.
Fight Kept Up All Day.
The fighting on June 6. in which there
were fewer than twenty casualties, was
kept up all day long by musketry and
artillery. The British attacking line,
three miles in length, made its way
amid the precipItous hills. A Boef gun
on spltz Kop fred shrapneI rapidly at
n range of four hundred yards, at the
British right flank, but every shell was
buried In the ground before bursting.
The defensive power Of modern weap.
ons seems less effective In rough coun-
try than upon levels where wide spaces
can be covered with fiat trajectorieg.
General Rundle's and General Bra
bant's divisions are still at Hammonla,
IN the Ficksburg district. The latest
intelligence from their headquarters Is
that the Beers are determined to fight
TO the bitter end, They are concehs
tratIng four thousand men arounq
Bethlehem. The country between them
and General Rumble is mountainous
and resembles northern Natal IN being
tIons, General Rundle's present care
is to prevent the Beers getting past
him southwark.
Hunter Occupies VentsrsdoEp.
General Hunters advance was occu-
pied ventersdorp, one hundred milea
southwest Of Pretoria, This took place
on June Z.
General PIumer's column Is on the
Glands river northwest Of Pretoria.
General Hunters immediate objective
is Potschefstroom, This town and Rus.
tenberg are the largest towns west Of
Johannesburg. II is reported thSt
Potschefstroom Is ready to submit.
The Dutch in Cape Colouey appear 70
have split. majority Of the Afrikan-
derbund being displeased by the un-
willingness OF Mr.. SohFeiner, the Cape
premier. to go the full length Of the
proposed opposition to the British.