The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-04

one had pushed the other down. a sol
ltaTy h0Tsenan had also come into the
picture, and was riding slowly across. +
The desire Of murder arose in my
heart Now for a bag. Bang, bang; !
Jumped at least a foot. d.Sarranging
the telescope hat there was plenty of
Tune % reset il while the shell was
Missing and roaring its way through
nearly five miles Of air.
found the kraal again; the group
still there, but all mOtionless and alert
Ike startled rabbits. Then they began
10 Deb into the earth one after the
other. Suddenly. II, the middle of the
kI2al, there appeared huge flash, q
biHowy ball Of smoke and clouds of
dust.
"Bangl I jumped again. The second
gun had fired. But before this shell
could reach the trenches a dozen little
ngufeS Scampered away, scattering in
all directions. Evidently the first had
not been without effect.
But l turned the glass to another
part Of the defenses. The Beers were
working away etOlidly. and only those
near the explosion showed any signs
ot'disturbanee. The bembardment con-
tiEued for half an hour, the shells being
flung sometimes into the trenches,
7e-A-e tAA4Ar- eADAtA tEAE uJAEtie OF GDlc Lieu,
and directed with marvellous accuracy.
At last the guns were covered up again
IN their tarpaulins, the crowd of mill.
tary spectators broke up and dispersed
amid the tents, and soon it became
night"
NAT Churchill gives rather a dismal
forecast Of the future that confronts
the Ladysmi,h force:
"Ladysmith has stood two months
siege and bCmbardment. Food and am
munitiOn stores are dWindling. Disease
is again increasing. The strain on the
garrison has been. in spite of their
pluck and stamina, a severe one. How
long can they hold out? II is difficult
to say precisely, because after the or
binary ratiOns are exhausted determin-
ed men VIII eat horses and rats>and
beetles and such like odds and ends
and so continue the defense.
We could, of course. see them well
and overhsar all they said One Of
them said, Who knows the way? An
other replied, Keep to the right and
as was sitting a few yards TO the
right felt somewhat uneasy, but they
juSL found the fOOtpath again, and did
not see me.
Whilst they were crossing the ditch
one Of the English wounded cried out,
wounded man, wounded man to the
right; L cannot walk But one Of them
replied, oh. you are only a Dutch
man. and another cried, Go to hell
When the English had all passed. the
day was just breaking We afterward
found twenty-five Of them killed and
wounded. Captain Paley was still liv
ing and we did for him what we could,
but we had no water and he died
shortly afteTward. The other wounded
men constantly cried out for water.
an. we then sent one of the prisoners
there were, five or six of them-with
a white flag to LadySEnith to fetch doc
tors.
"One Englidhman had been struck
by seven bullets, one by four and one
by three. There was, believe, not one
who had less than two bullet wounds,
seven in. number and only continued
firing for about five minutes you. oan
see that it must have been warm
work
Besides, the British carried off a
couple Of their wounded out of the
ditch All their guns had bayonats
fixed to them. I took four guns. but
[ gave two to the doctor to serve as
splints for the broken legs Of two Of
the wounded. Among the twenty-five
were Captain Paley, one major and
1ne corporal.
Further on. the English killed three
Of our men with bayonets and wounded
Two. Higher up the hill there lay ten
lead Of the English, and where we
had been challenged by them also Law
1ne. Your affectionate son.
"DENEYS RETTZ"