The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-03-08
B|)[RS IN FULL Retreat.
Kruser's Followers Are Hastily
Leaving Cape Colony and March
ing to the Orange Free State.
SCENES OF HORROR NEAR CoLENso.
Along the Road Where Terrible Battles
Were Waged Dead Men and Animals
Lie-In Cases OF Hasty Buriais Rains
Washed the Earth Away aud Out OF the
Ground stick GhAstly Bodies.

London, March 6.-The war office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
"Osfontein, March 6.-Gen. Gatacre
occupied Stormberg yesterday. The
lines of railway north and west Will
now be repaired. Gen. Clements is at
Joubert's station, beyond Colesberg
The duke of Marlborough with the
Oxford company of the imperial yeo-
many has left Cape Town for Naauw-
poort. Gen. Butler reports Natal now
practically clear of the enemy and
that he can not hear of any formal body
of them anywhere. The Beers left
some ambulances full of their sick
from which the mules had been taken
for transport service"
The Beers in northern Cape Colony
are in full retreat to the Orange Free
State. The possession of Stormberg
put Gen. Gatacre in railroad communi-
cation with Gen. Clements at Coles
berg, for though the Beers partially
wrecked the railroad, it is understood
that il can be quickly repaired and
thus the entrace of additional British
troops into the Free State will be
greatly facilitated. The position
gained by Gen. Brabant at Dordrecht
is reported to be exceedingly strong.
According to the Times correspondent
the Boer numbers alone enabled them
to retreat from Dordrecht, practically
unhindered. He also reports viola
ton OF the white flag by the Beers
and that they deliberately fired al
close range on a stretcher party.
Gen. Whites garrison has begun to
leave Ladysmith and is arriving at
the Moot river camp, where the troops
will remain several days, after which
they will go further south. They are
emaciated and exhausted and say the
road to Colenso represents scenes that
exceed in horror those depicted in
Dante's Inferno" Dead men and ami
mails are lying mntiiated and pu-
trified in the trenches formerly occu-
pied by the Beers and fill the air with
IA sickening stencil. In cases where
hurried burial had been attempted
the rains have washed the earth away,
and out of the earth stick CHASTITY legs
and arms of dead burghers.
According to the Boer prisoners,
another important British success
will cause President Steyn to flee to
Pretoria, leaving provisional gov
eminent at Bloemfontein, which is
likely to make peace overtures, those
Free Staters not wishing for peace
strekking into the Transvaal and
there helping to make a stand which
most of the British military critics
now point out will constitute the most
difficult and deciding feature of the
war. The fecent rains have afforded
Lord Roberts good grass, and copious
supplies have reached him. News of
his advance is eagerly awaited
Depiorabis Condition ut Ladysmith.
London, March 6.-Surgeon Treves
cables from Ladysmith that the con-
dition of the town is most deplora BILE
and that there are 500 cases of ty-
phoid fever. Lavish supplies of com
forts are now in the place. however
For = Loan of E30.OOo.OOO.
London, March 6.-The house of |
in committee of the whole |
this evening adopted a resolution to |
authorize loan of { 81, 200, 900. The |
vote stood 16l to &c.