The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-22
WOMEN
And Children are Being Sent 10
Lydenburg.


Lorenzo Morques, are now close to the
Vaal iver, within forty miles of Johnan.
esburg
The migration from Pretoria has be.
gun. Women and children are Ieing sent
In trains to Machadadorp on the way to
Lyndenburg. Trains are arriving at Ior.
EMO Marques filled with passengers
among whom are many Germans bound
for Europe
Some detaoils Of Colonel Mahon's hefe.
King relief expedition are now coming
through from wayside points. II was
silent rush to Mafeking. O. f. Hands
the Daily Mail correspondent mentioned
In Lord Roberts dispatch to The war of
flee as dangerously wounded in the fight
In the bush, May 13, sont his last mes
sage from Vryburg, May 9th, by runner
to Kimberley, May q. lie says:
The flying mounted column secret v
and swiftly organized by General Hun
ter started from Barkley and arrived here
tonight, covering 1870 miles in five days
1t is grand force of mounted men. inn
perial light horse from Ladysmith. thc
Kimberley mounted corps, with roval
horse artillery and pompoms and a Sc
Iected body of infantry from the fusilisrs
special equipment of light springed
mule transport completes this spleuLl1
force.
The force so equipped was enabled TO
move with much rapidity that although
TINS Is a difficult country recurring vigi-
liant scouting the Beers were surprised
Tie column moved parallel with the enc
my positions on the Vaal at Roordam
and Fourteen Streams, actually getting
behind them without firing a shot. So
close were we Sunday and Monday that
General Hunters balloon was visible ana
his bombardment heard.
he route taken was between the VaoI
and the Hart rivers, then along the right
pahk OF the Hart to a point abreast NJ
Iaungs, and thence to Pudimoe. Roedc-
port and Vryburg."
"A correspondent with General Hunter
telegrahps as follows from Fourteen
Streams
Colonel Hahons relieving column left
Barkley west under secret orders ,Mav
and reached Vryburg May II. The Boers
mrched on the right flank of the British
and strange race followed Mabon nrcse-
ing toward Mefeking with the utmo-t
/ force
condition and the Beers hurying parallel
IN an EFFORT to pass him and to throw
themselves across his path.
Ihe Beers succeeded. Mahon then
turned west during the night. The Beers
followed, overlook and attacked him In
the bush, but were beaten OFF"
Then, as Lord Roberts wired Colorc,
Mahon and Colonel Plumer united forces
at Jamaibi, May 15, and Mefeking was
relieved three days later under conditions
not yet known here. correspondent Of
tn Daily Express says:
General Hunter devised and guided the
relief, which was daringly executed Dy
Colonl Mahon."
The last message from Colonel Mahons
column before the relief was dated at
Majanambili May II. 1t says:
THE column left Vryburg yesterday,
did nineteen miles and outspanned at .
a. m. No fires were allowed We start
ed at dawn today and trekked here"
Baden-Powelrs hardest blow to the
besiegers was the capture of Command
ant Sarel Eloff President Krug )
garndson, and his men. 1T is thus de-
scribed in a dispatch from Mafeking,
"Eloff today fell into one of the various
traps that have been left open for months
At four a. m. the enemy who had been
much strengthened during the last days
feinted an attack on the eastern side Of
the town, while a large force which dur
ing the night had crept along the river
guided by native rebels who had chosen
the craftiest detours, managed to enter
the Baralong location. This they burned
and the huts of the natives Were blazing
fiercely for a distance of nearly a mile
Then finding that they were unopposed
the Beers yelled: Come out, you skulk
ers. Today we take Mafeking' Sudden
ly a Boer cried: Run here are mo
rooineks. Nearly all fled. Captain
Marsh opened fire from the fort on ach
side, cutting off and repulsing the main
body of the Dutch, but driving the van
guard of about $50 into the native loca-
tion which had bee nburned
1.-THE enemy broke into two parties, one
being penned in the stone cattle kraal
and the other hemmed in a hollow behind
kopje inside the outer defenses. They
had no water and but little food.
Meanwhile a strong party, estimated
at 800, ran round the native location aud
reached the camp close to the railway.
There they surprised and after sharp
fighting captured Lieutenant Colonel
Hore Captain Sigleton and Veterinary
Surgeon Dunlop Smith, who for time
penned with forty Beers in the offices
of the British African protectorate. I his
a.