The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-18

/ camp below, rushed OnW ard, onward e
death or disaster.
The accursod wires caught then
round the legs until they fioundered
+ like trapped wolves. and all the time
I the rifles of the foe sang the song OF
+ death in their ears.
Then they fell back, broken and
beaten, leaving nearly 1900 dead and
wounded Just where the broad breast
of the grassy veldt melts into the
embrace Of the rugged African hills
and an hour later the dawn came OF
the dreariest day that Scotland has
known fer q generation past.
"Of her officers, the flower Of her
chiV5lTy, the pride Of her breeding
but few remained to tell the tale. a
sad tale truly, but one untainted with
dishOnOr or smirched with disgrace. for
up these heights under similar circum-
stances, even {. brigade Of devils could
scarce have hoped to pass.
An that mortal men could do. the
Scots did; they tried. they failed they
fell, and there is nothing left US now
Under a Blazing Sun.
'AI that fataful day our men lay close
to the BOer lines, under a blazing sun,
over their heads the shots Of friends
and foes passed without ceasing. All
day long the battle ragged. Scarcely
could we see the f0e-all that met our
eyes was the rocky heights that spoke
with tongue Of fame whenever or
troops drew near.
once our guards made a brilliant
dash at the trenches. and ike torrent
their RESTLESS valor bore all before
them and for a few brief moments
they gOt within hitting distance oil the
foe. Wei sid they aVenge the slaugh-
ter Of the Scots. The bayonets, Ike
tongues of flame, passed above or be
low the rifles guard and swept through
briSEet and breast bone.
out of their trenches the guards
men tossed the Beers, as men in Eng
hsn harvest fields toss the hay when
the reapers' scyth5s have whitened the
corn fields, and the human streams
were plentiful where the British
guardsmer stood Then they fell back.
FOR the Gre from the heights above
them fell thick as the spume of the
surf on an Australian rOck-ribbed
coast But the guards had proved 20
the BOer that man to man, the BritCn
was his master.
Tried to Draw the Enemy.
In vain all that day Methuen tried
by every TUse he knew to draw the
enemy; valnly the Lancers rode reck-
lessly to induce those human rock
Hmpets TO come out and cut them of.
Cron5e knew the mettIe Of our men
and an ironic laugh played around his
IRON mouth, and still he STAYED within
mis- native Businesses; but death sat
ever at his elbow, for our gunuers
dropped the lyddite shells and the
moving Shropnel all along his lines.
until the trenches ran blood and many
OF MS guns were siienced.
In the valley behind mis- olFter line
Of Mills his dead lay piled in hundreds.
ana the slope of the hill was a charBeI
house. Where the wounded all writbed
amidst the masses Of the dead-,7
sh9stly tribute TO British guurery.
When, at 100 D. m. on Tuesday. we
drew of to MCdder river to report. we
left nearly 5000 dead and wounded of
grim ola Cronje's men as a token that
the lion of England had barred AIS
teeth In earnest"
Highlanders Turned and Ran.
The last mails from the Cape brought
numerous accounts of Magersfontein.
but none 50 vivid as this. Julian Ralph.
IN the Daily Mall very bluntly writes
of the HighlandeTs after the first vol
ley from the hidden trenches:
They turned and ran, literally col
nding and climbing over one another
IN their confusion. A chaplain for
ward in The ranks was knocked down
and tramplcd, as brave a man as anv.
yet one who declared there lived no
man VINO would have behaved diff
fereptly
1T has been as if the earth had
opened. and from a cleft that ran as
far as our men reached, fire had
b6iched and shot swept the veldt.
The fever of fright lasted only while
the men ran 200 yards. and they re-
gained some measure of order"
says the Times correspondent of the
same occurrence, Back they came in
q wave that no officer could st0p. From
a point OF vantage on the horse. artiI-
.ery hill one could see them swarning
IKE bees over the veldt until they were
almost out of range. and The guns were
lett out on the open with no one to
support them. Tt was perhaps the
most unpleasant sight that "a British
solder or today has ever beheld-ft
was certainly a sight never 10 be for
gotten.
Begged to Hold Position.
1t was difficult to say what would
happen next until Major Ewart brig
adler major of the Hfshlanders. rode
I'D with an order from the command
ms officer. which was almost an en-
treaty, 10 -he effect that all he asked
Of the Highland brigade was to hold
-he position until dark
SO Tiddled and shattered was the
brigade that Ewart had actually no
)ther officer with him to help him to
give the order TO the scattered men.
ana he was Slad TO have the assistance
u Colonel DawHey. who was there not
ls a soldier. but as a civilian. survey
ng the battle from the horse artillery
Gill;"
The Mir. a Russ1phile newspaper at
2hiippolis, publishes C. letter from a
Bulgarian eX-oficer now serving in the
iTansyaal army. II was dated Far
ners hcpje. Natal Dec. ,, 1899 and is
p these terms:
Russia With Beers.
Look at the heading of my letter
Na;Ll. Can you imagine that I should
write you from South Africa. whereas
ron thought me 60 be in Chicago? 1 am
now Pm the entertainments of the BOer
Imy before Ladysnith. As soon as
var was declared ] made UD my mind
% go as g volunteer. and at New York
'resanted myself 20 the DutHn cOmmHt-
lee there, who paid my travelling ex-
lenses. and I embarked on the Sidonia
7iwe. bound for Madeira.
on Nov. Z we landed at LOurenzo /
MARQUEE; on the 9Th was in Pretoria.
md on the 9Th already here I had
nany of 10 soldiers entrusted to I
ne. and as a pioneer officer my task IS /
cry Important.
Bearded, stalWart, hardy fellows are /
hese Beers. 7 speak Ems ish, and that, /
with the Beers, il che Universal lan-
suage- Good people, but how terribly (
hey hate the English. we never hated /
he Turks 80 much. All of them are +
,ood shots, good norsemen and good /
Christians.
These Of them who have finished .
heir tasks Of digging, sit down 20 rest +
vita their Bibles in their hands. they +
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