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

the Enemy Bombarded the City
Great Suffering Caused By the In
tense Heat-Bosr Lad Tells of His
Escape From the Advancing Brit
ish at Elandslaagte.
Correspondence Of the Associated Press.)
London. Jan. 6.-Iette1s from the
soldiers fighting against une Beers are
published in large numbers, and in
many cases are Just a. Interesting as
the accounts by trained war GORE
sp0ndenta. A medical ofacer under
Lord Methuep,- describing the battle of
MQAdeT river, SAYS:
a lot of North Lancashire men were
horribly wounded. ] turned over a
sergeant, black in the face, dead One
man was brought to me who had been
struck by shell with his face mutt
lated, threat cut and chest Iacerated.
Oh, Godl the sight was eicken'ng, blood
everywhere. Very few of our men be
ing wounded, I went out near sunset
10 aid the Highianders. They had been
lying all day under The friglhtful sun.
stretoher bearers could advance. as they
were al snOt 81. They shouted to me
to crawl on the ground, as though most
Of the firing was over, there We're stall
three or four Boeus with express rifles
and explosive bullets. who were under
cover, and who kept picking of our
men.
Some men utterly collapsed, aSd all
/ could do was to Dut pad 10 their
wounds and my whisky flask TO their
lips. I then crawled back to my horse
ard made my way to some ambulances
two qriles distant, to set their aid 1
was under fire all the time, bullets
dancing around me. ! felt a kind Of
solemn disregard, as I had been ex-
posed 20 danger before.
Boer Spies Everywhere.
In a letter written to hss father from
Moot river on Nov. g. az officer in the
Queens Royal West zey resimant
SAYS:
Against an enemy Ike the Beers,
infantry is useless. The Beers have
spies everywhere, and, as they are well
mounted, they can move away hours
before our infantry can get within
striking distance. On the other hand,
they viii never attack and when we
advance toward Pretoria commands
viii be left all over the country, loot
ing and burning farms. The only peO-
pie who have a chance with them are
the local volunteers. If the government
would only raise about 1900 volunteers
and send out a lot of mounted infantry
who could work with the local vOlun-
teens, these isolated BOer forces would
soon be wiped out. At present we are
helpless, as they make rings around
Us
Bombardment of Kimberley.
The special correspondent Of the Cape
Argus thus describes a bOmbardment
of Kimberley: ''Wnat viii probably be
handed down in the annals Of history
to Boer posterity as the bOmbardment
Of Kimberley probably occurred on
Thursday. Nov. Z, and If ever the far
oicaI element were introduced into such
a serious business aS war, the Puerile
attempts to r3ze kimberley can surely
claim it.
THE Beers had two guns mounted,
one at Scholz Mex, trained on the Pre-
mier mine at Wesseton. at a range of
something ike 3 SEQ yards, and the
other at Spyf0ntein, quite 1000 yards
distant A couple of shots were fired
between 5 and 8 O'Clock in the morning,
but then the Beers desisted until 10,
when che gun at Scholz Mex, appar-
emily a n-ne-pCunder. firing a Frenah
shell. opened fire on Wea5eltcn.
THE fire, however, proved quite
harmless. nearly al the shots falling in
the debris heaps. and our guns at Wes-
seltOn, replying ana quickly getting the
range, induced the enemy to cease fir
ing. and they cleared off about noon.
so little was thought Of the BOer fire
that the alarm was not even sounded,
and business was carried on Just the
same.
'TAls ended TIE bombardment Of
/ Kimberley So little alarm did it cause
/ that the men in the red0ubts were act
ually playing cricket and quoits while
I It was going on"
Was Hit Three Times.
The following is from a letter from
| a ressrv.fst sergeant in the Coldstream
I guards, who is with Nethuen's col
umn. He was at tee battle Of MoudeT
river, and saws:
During the afternoon some. one
seemed to have spotted me from the
( trenches. Fra a shot gCTUck the side
/ If ny boot and struck my rifle ir9t IN
/ front of my face, filing my eyes with
/ dirt and spsinters. l rose up a little
/ when another bullet struck the middle
3
my kn505 when a bullet struck me fan
/ in the chest on the buckle Of my haver-
/ sack. breaking through 1T and causing
| a slight pUncture Of J'ie skin and bruis-
/ ing my chest have been congratulate
/ ed IS bein gthe lucki0st beggar in my
| battalion.
From the BOer side come reports Just
| as interesting. A lad Of II wrote 10 his
! mother after the battle of Elandslaagte
/ and the letter IL published in the Jour
nal de Geneve. IS follows:
Boer Lads Experience.
we were on a kopje. Our horses
| were behind it in a hollow. As the in
| fantry advanced against US. We began
! shooting. When il looked as if we were
going to be surrounded. a certain num-
Der Of our men fell back to another
| position. About leo Of US remained on
the kopje But the FIRE of the Maxims
and other guns became so violent that
! We withGs sw a little TO find cover.
The general and commandment VII
/ ioen. rallied US and brought IA hack n
/ he top Of the hill and advised US te get
| under shelter there as much as possible
/ I followed the general with a dozen
! others TO the right. and Viljoen led the
rest to the left. The English were sill
advancing and they We're now within
600 yards OF US.
1T was easy to recognize the kills
! they were wearing We fired AT thenr
/ necessarily. All our bullets seemed r.