The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-29

New York, Sept. ga special dis
patch from Bennett Burleigh to the
Herald from Lorenzo Marquee says:
The Boer debacle is complete.
By dint of hard riding from Barber
ton, 1 managed to overtake, first, Gen.
Ian Hamilton's division, then that of
Gen. P~ole-Carew. 1 finally entered
Komaatipoort with Jul scouts.
M~onkeyish Destructiveness.
Not a shot was fired, nor was a
Boer seen during the march. Evil
dences of the enemy's monkeyish de-
structiveness was everywhere to be
seen, however.
The bridges had been dynamited,
the stores, buildings and homestead
looted and burned, as has been also
the railway property, all the stations
being mere masses of smoking ruins,
among them Kaap Miriden, Hector
Spruit and Komaatipoort.
At the last place there is an enor-
nous area over which the Beers have
wrought destruction.
The Devastation.
The devastation includes hundreds
of wagons, trucks and carriages,
which have been burned, together
with all kinds of stores of clothing,
ammunition, forage and provisions,
such as sugar, coffee, rice, -four and
stationery.
Thousands of tons, in are still
burning.
Gen. Pole-Carew has secured hun
dreds of locomotives.
The whole of the Selati railway line
is simply blocked with rolling stock.
Boer Guns and stores.
On my way from Barberton l saw,
at Hector Spruit, the Boer guns and
the destroyed stores.
In the Crocodile river there were
visible, literally, acres of damaged
gun ammunition, wagons, limbers,
dynamite decorators and war stores
of every sort and description.
When l passed through Komaati-
poort. | saw besides the burning
stores, hundreds of tons of ammuni-
tion-all kinds of caps,gunpowder and
and other explosive ready-fused shells
for guns from the pompon to the six
inch, broken rifles and cannon.
The enemy had left standing many
tents.
Great Waste Evident.
The great waste in the effects OF
the Beers was evident. Trunks, fur
n%iture, provisions, clothing and other
articles were lying about in every di-
rection.
In the rocky bed of the tumbling,
foaming river were yet more enor.
nous quantities of stores, ammuni-
ton, rifles, cannon and foodstuffs.
Any good police force-say one of
10000 men-can do the rest of the
work of paciication for security.
Can Not Escape.
If Ger. Butler and the others move
on to seize the passes neither Ben vii
joen, the new commandant general,
with Steyn and Schalkburger, nor
Koetze with the rest of the derelicts
from Komaatipoort, can escape
through the mountains toward Ly-
denburg and Petersburg, while to re-
main in the low veldt at this season
of the year spells deaths for men and
cattle.
The Portuguese have disarmed all
the Boer refugees.
Clamoring for Pay.
The Irish-American mercenaries
are %clamoring for pay and threaten
ing the Boer officials.
The final collapse of the Boer army
may he summarized as follows:
When the Beers, numbering 1000,
evacuated Komaatipoort, they tool
up positions between the Lobombo
range and the river.
They had good positions, and could
have made a capital stand, but owing
TO the disorder and lack of discipline
prevalent they were only half-heart.
ed. Wishing to avoid a conflict and
unnecessary bloodshed the British
consul general consulted the Portu
guese governor general, Senior Ma.
chado, as to the best course to be
pursued to attain this end.
A Diplomatic Move.
He asked hat emissaries should b,
sent up with an address to the Beers
pointing out the uselessness of con
tinuing their resistance and the abso
lutte needlessness of going on further
Besides, if they continued to fgh
there was a fear of the natives rising
Owing to the fact that the Portu
guese had been most kind to tn
Beers and as they had guarantee,
their maintenance and repatriation
and promised to send them back T.
their country free of charge, tn
scheme succeeded beyond the wild
est hopes of its originator.
Diplomncy's Triumph.
Instead of dozens coming down T.
Lorenzo Marquee, $500 arrived in thi
wise.
Diplomacy, therefore, triumphed b,
bringing the war to a speedy an
bloodless close.
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