The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-15


What now?' said CoghiH, while we
/ looked at each other. One Of the woun-
/ ed said. We must raise the white flag
COghill answered with a curse The
/ balls Whistled all around US. Some
thing had to be done. Well, said one
! Of the wounded-CoEhill completed the
| phTase-'we must run for it.
Good luck cried the general, who
was seated on the ground and pale as
death. We threw down our mbskets
and everything that might delay US
and then we rushed down from the
/ kOpje, for il was a case of saving our
own skins, The two bodies of the ad-
vancing English troops were within
200 yards Of each other. I ran down
/ between them without turning my head
TO right or left. The bullets gave me
wings. 1 don't think that ever ran
so quick
I was lucky enough to get to the
horses without being hit. 1 could not
find mine, but I got hold of another
1 Then OFF I went oil him, and managed
to get clear Of the Lancers who were
pursuing US. / passed the night in an
abandoned Kafir kraal, and the next
morning managed 10 join the COM
mando Of Niljoen. / don't know what
| became of my comrades but / hope
that they were as lucky as was"
Z departure u DUET 1IUOpS-
The Standard and Diggers' News
gives this picturesque account of the
/ departure OF a commando from PretO-
/ ria: The parade of 400 sturdy war
TiOrs Of the police commando excited
admiration. The Afrilkander men have
received their mandate from the women
| folk, though the shadow of Elandslaag-
te hung like a pail upon the mourning
robes Of many. Venerable danes in
I kaPpes, and maids in chirtz and babies
/ of all ages, upon whom the warriors
/ shOwered a valedictOry benson. chung
and struggled fiercely around the car
riages. Withered tantes, buxOm vrous
and frail nichtjes tumbled over each
Other for a final embrace.
TT was admitted that no finer or SER
viceable force had been sent off. By
the time it gets to the Natal border it
will be 500 strong. It is under the COM
mandant of Police Cert NJ. J. Van
Dam, with Lieutenants Oosthuizen,
Pohlman, Murphy and Jacobsz next in
command. c. ID. Schultz addressed the
men: You are going to defend your
/ rights your liberty and your independ-
! enee-that dearly bought Independence
/ God has granted you and which is once
| e gain contested. You are not going to
/ fight for honor, or money, or mercenary
ambition or sOTdid gain -"
Every Man IN his Place.
One of the soldiers rescued from the
wrecked transport IsmOre writes: The
/ most satisfactory part Of the whole
| business has been the splendid behavior
of all the troops. They were as steady
and quiet as if we were parading in
/ the Barraek square. Every man stood
/ in his proper place. There was not the
slightest hurry or confusion. and they
/ did exactly as they were told.
There is not the least doubt that it
/ is owing to their splendid discipline
/ that all were saved. Had there been
/ the slightest panic a dreadful loss of
/ life must have occurred. as getting the
! boats off was a most difficult business,
/ owing to the heavy swell. and when
/ they were launched they leaked 50 that
| half n hours bailing had TO be done
/ before we dared let them start. Every
/ thing had to be done by the soldiers, as
/ the ships crew We're all employed in
1 trying TO put the water tight door to
! keep the sea out Of the engine room. If
| It had got in there before the fires
We're put out a fearful explosion would
/ have occurred and the ship would have
been blown in half.
Julian Ralph at Modder River.
Modder river battle, with its many
/ dramatic Incidents, It's heavy losses, its
1 long duration, proves a never failing
/ tonic of the war correspondent lucky
! enough to have witnessed it. Julian
/ Ralph. in the Daily Mail, gives a vivid
1 and lengthy account OF this engage
ment.
! "A common reliance of the BoeT." he
| writes, was upon empty gin bottles.
! Bottles still containing gin and one full
| bottle Of that liquor were to be seen
stuck in the loose dirt Of the trenches"
Speaking Of the BOer losses. the cor
! respondent declares. First in the mind
of the Boer is the desire to hide his
dead and lie about their number It O.
from their own that they most desire
to hide the truth. The prisoners We
took ali said that only eighteen had
been killed. but the deserters said the
/ loss Of life was very great and that in
the river alone 100 were sunk with
/ weights For my part, 1 shall not be
| surprised if We learn some day that in
/ killed alone the Beers lost quite 500.
Two Horses For Each Man.
After every battle the veldt has
been dotted with Boer horses in conse-
quence of the custom Of bringing two
horses for each well-to-do man, and in
consequence of the loss Of riders by
death and wounded, But both previous
! battIefelds combined showed no such
number of riderless horses as Modder
river There were literally hundreds
Of them I had lost mine in the fight
but in the first half hour of the next
morning I took my choice of four. and
might have made my pick from a hum
I dred, saddled and bridled, before I had
y gone half over the field.
"One word as 20 that phase Of their
warfare which must be touched upon
in justice in every account we cores
Dondents write Of IT, With my own
eyes, being upon the scene, saw the
sharpshooters trained upon our am
balances three times, and upon our
observation-disclosures on innumerable oc-
casions-in fact, whenever they rose
TO their feet con the right of the linel
and attempted to perform their work -
Ralph relates with the feeling Of one
who suffered the hardships which lack
Of water imposed on Methuen's men
during their march toward Kimberley.
Lack Of Water.
I'VE never joke about water now
ne says. THE first time We really ap-
preciated ii we were starting out from
Orange river. We were marching and
watching the daybreak I'm breaking il
seemed TO rend the earths blanket of
atmosphere and let the suns heat out
upon US as If we were so many thou
sand stokers in the brofling belly of a
ship. On and. one we marched in
heavy sand or over stones. or stumz
bling across furrowed grOund-al
gasping like fish thrown on s. beach.
At first our lips dried and craked,