Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-18
achievements to their men through

achievements TO their men through
the ravine.
THE enemy fought throughout with
the most stubborn courage, being evil
IDENTIFY determined 10 take the camp or
die In the attempt Their eix-inch gun
on Umbulwana mountain and its SMALL
err satellites threw more than hundred
shells at Abdy's battery and az the
troops on the hill Our troops however,
were not less gallant and resolved, and
the enemy was pressed back step by
step until at length those who were lett
broke and fled in utter disorder.
"A terrific storm of rain and hail, &C.
companled by Deals Of thunder, had
burst over the camp during the fight
ing. This served TO swell the streams
into raging torrents. In their efforts
to escape, numbers Of the enemy flung
themselves into the current and were
swept away. The struggle In this part
OF the field was now ended, and the
finale was a terrific fuslllade all along
the line. the crash OF which almost
drowned the incessant thunder above.
Meanwhile a more exciting contest
was In progress In the direction OF
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party furnished by the HarTismith
commando crept slowly and cautiously
along a donga in the valley which d.
vides our post from their camp. A
few well aimed life shots killed our
pickets. Taking advantage of every
inch Of cover the Beers then gradually
reached the crest OF the height. Here
a body Of light horse was posted. but
they were forced TO retire before the
advance Of the Free Staters. there be-
ing no breastworks for defense on the
shoulder of the hill. With little TO i'm
pede their passage the enemy soon came
to an emplacement, where they sur.
prised working parties Of the Gordon
highlanders and the Sixteenth rifles.
Lieut.. Dlgby Jones Of the royal en-
gineers collected handful Of men and
made a gallant effort 10 hold the posi-
ton, but the numbers We're against
him, and after a stubborn resistance he
was driven back and the enemy got
possession OF the summit Even, then,
however, the Free Staters were afraid
to venture far OF to face the heavy fire
from the sangar Here II was that
Lieut.. McNaughton and thirty OF the
Gordons were captured, although not
until every man among them was
wounded.
at s o'clock Col. Edwards. with two
squadrons OF light horse. arrived upon
the scene and the twenty-frst battery
OF the royal field artillry, under MAI
Blewitt, came into action, preventing
the storming party being reinforced
from the Boer camp.
AT the same time the eighteenth
hussars and the fifth lancers checked
the movement from the spruit on our
right flank. Nevertheless our position
at this point had become critical. Our
men had retired for cover behind the
northern slope, while the enemy had
made their way into the pass dividing
them from the HILL
Mai. Gowen rallied a few OF the
rifles. but fell while leading them to the
charge His example was at once fol-
lowed by Lieut., Tod. but the latter met
the same fate.
The enemy was making good the
footing they had already secured in the
emplacement, when Maj. Miller Wal
mutt, calling the scattered Gordons to-
gether, charged in and drove them
back. Having thus cleared the ground
he Joined Lieut.. Digby Jones in a newly