The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-10

terry men, too, following their example,
tried TO turn their horses and lead their
guns out. Thot was suffi lent.
Shoot, burghers, shoot! shouted a big
Boer In velveteen coat, and into the
chaos the hidden enemy roured their rife
fire Men and horses and mules and oxen
went down in heaps. Part Of the squad
ron managed to reach the fighting men be-
hind. who were now assau d on three
SIDES, and then they told them that the
first message was true.
Now, there were deeds dore that day
that would have gained many a man the
Victoria cross If they had taken place in
a winning fight. Brave Sergt Maj Mar
tin of q" Battery, Wi h the assistance OF
a driver, brought the only gun saved out
of the tough of IT, with one horse In the
wheel and a mule harne sed in the ad
These two men ana a major were all that
escaped from the Inflated battery. and
seven guns We've left TO the Beers But
let us get to Todd
The Itte force had now gathered In the
middle of the plata, near some sheet iron
houses. They edged away southwark
across the railway enba kment into the
open veldt, the guns OF ~" Bate v sup
porting them From the east they were
subjected TO heavy shell fire. and from
| the concealed rifiemen also in the banks
OF the Modder While from the north and
west they were within close range from
the sprult, the hillside beyoad ami from
The walls OF big kraal the sheltered a
hundred Transvaalers, they got a scath-
ing. That any escaped at all Is a marvel.
and the mere fact that they did is trb-
ute to their determine fighting.
What Tod Did.
Horses were gong d wn everywhere,
and it WIS seen hat imm date retreat
| in he only direction pc slble was the last
forlorn h pc ANY dis~7 oun ed men were
IN "a ! int he h. af tla
my. 1t YVES at This nom mt that an officer
roti7ed two rider ess horses. apparently
urhurt, lalloplng out ward the Boer
IL es He turre1 and ask for volunteers
to ing T. EN- in.
Two men sterp-d forward. One was
TODD the Are ic n. TIL m united quick
ly al de out b tween the two armies.
The o'her man Il be ore he had gone
a hundred yards. AS Todd left the officer
/ had call-d to him and told
him that the squadron doc
tor was supposed to be lying off
to he right near som brushes, wounded.
To was told to take The horse to the
doctor ( pcss!b'e and fetch him in.
"R ght you are, sir" said the Yankee,
ana way he went
| Af er h omr anton fell he still kept
on. His m nd W conferred on getting that
| hor arer ard nearer he got to the
Boer nes Why he was not killed a doz-
coat and saddle were shot through. At
las he erasped tie runaway by the bril-
ole. and. leading him at a rot went over
to VIII re he had b en- told he doctor was
lyirg H kept Shouting out his name
as he went, ana the first thing he knew
he rede straight into conner of the
s0ruit almost on to The Beers. One OF
tn m Sc tng h m conf & in so close, evil
Gen ly mistook his mi 81 n.
If y'u wish to sur en- e." he cried in
EnElish, 'go on down there"
He waved him down the stream, but
Todd had not found the doctor yet. He
crushed thr ugh the bu' his up the bank
4" gained the open, and ever that lead
swept plain he h AIDED once more toward
the En2lish lines ana there. safe and
sound he por ed, Sc ying that as he
could not find the doctor, he had lent
tn horse 10 a wou 'ded ms n n the Noun
ted Inffntry. and, by tie same token, the
wounded man. safe and alive, was not
far behind HIN.
AS l sail b-fore. there were many
brave lhirgs core this cav. and I am
glad to r cord this one rformed by a
fellow countryman. James Barnes.