The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-04
BOER END HAS COME.
British in Possession of a Des-
oIated Country.
DESTRUCTION on EVERY SIDE.

end OF the Boer republic has come
Tie fighting for liberty il PRACTICAL,
al an end.
Bv dint Of hard riding from Bar
berton a correspondent oVertooi
first Gen. Ian Hamilton division
then that of Gen. Pole-Carew. ant
finally entered k0Tnatipoort. No'
a shot WAS fired nor wa. Boer seer
during the march.
Evidence of the enemy's destruct
lysues- was everywhere 10 be seen
The bridges had been dynamited. the
stores. buildings and hOmesteade
looted and burned, a had been also
the railway property, all the CHIEF
stations being mere masses OF snlok-
ing ruins. among them Kaap Muiden.
Hectorspruit and komatipoort. At
the last place there is an enormous
area over which the Beers have
wrought destruction.
The devastation includes hundreds
OF wagons. trucks, and carriages
which have been burned, together
with all kinds of stores of clothing,
ammunition, forage and provisions,
such as sugar, coffee, rice. flour and
stationery Thousands OF tons. in
deed, are still burning.
Gen. Pole-Carew has secured hun
dreds OF locomotives The whole OF
the Selati railway line is simply
blocked with rolling stock.
On my way from Barberton, saw
at Hectorspruit the burst Boer guns
and destroyed stores.
In the Crocodile river there we've
visible literally acres Of damaged gun
ammunition, wagons, dynamite de-
tonatOrS and war stores OF every
sort and description. At komati-
poort there We're, besides the burning
stores, hundreds of tons OF ammun:-
tion-all kinds OF caps, gunpowder |
and other explosives, and ready |
fused shells for guns, from the pom
pom to the 6-iuch broken rifles and |
cannon. Tie enemy had left stand
ing many tents. The great waste in
the effects of the Beers was evident.
Trunks, furniture, provisions, cloth
ing and other articles were living
about in every direction. In the
rocky bed of the tumbling, foamin@
river We're Yet more enormous guam
titles OF stores. ammunition. cannon
and food stuffs.
Any good police force-say one of
10000 MEXICAN do the rest of the
work Of pacitication for security.
II Gen. Butler and the others move
IN and seize the passes, neither Gen. (
tiljoen, the new commandments
raj, with Steyn and Schalkberger,
Tor koetze, with the rest of the dere-
lets from komatipoort, can escape :
through the mountains toward Ly- I
and Petersburg, while to q
emain in the low veldt at this sea- d
on of the year spells death for men c
md cattle 5
The Portuguese have disarmed all
he Boer refugees taken. c
Fifty truck loads, with nearly 300 t
ons, have been dumped down on the :
sland OF Sheffeen. off LOurenzO Mar [
Iues.
The Irish-American mercenaries
re clamoring for pay and threaten K
ng the Boer officials. I
The final collapse of the Boer army c
nay be summarized as follows: s.
When the Beers, numbering 1000, G
vacuated koomatipoort they took q
p positions between the Lobombo |
ange and the river t
They had good positions and could
ave made a capital stand, but ow-
lg TO the disorganization and lack
I discipline that We're prevailing L
hey We're only half-hearted >
" ieulhG 10 aNOld conf1lct ana
bloodshed, the British .
onsul general consulted the Portu- u
uese governor general, Senior Ma
ado, as 10 the best course to be v
ursued toaytain this end, Heasked ,
hat emissAries should be sent up q
18th an address TO the Beers point "
~ out the useleSSness OF continuing q
heir resistance and the absolute Il
OF going on further :
Besides, II they continued TO fight. o
here was fear OF the natives ris- ;
-. Owing to the fact that the Por- s
1guese had been most kind to the 81
oers, and a. they had guaranteed ID
-. I