Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-03
LADYSMITH ASST LOOKSTODAY
The Once Besieged City Revisited by Correspondent
OF the London Daily Mail Historic Scenes and
Memories


Devonshire Regiment, who fell in the
gallant and successful charge made
across this place by three companies
during the fight on 9th January, 1900.
Scmper Fideis." 1t would be an i'm
pertinence for me to add any words Of
description to all that has been said,
and so wildly and earnestly said, on
this subject No mere words and could
ever do full Justice to the charge Of
the Devons, or 20 the undying fame
which Is theirs.
At the point where Wagon Hill Joins
the Caesars Camp ridge there Is a de-
preston, and here II was that the I'm
pereial Light Horsemen were stationed.
Standing on the edge Of Cesars Hill,
one looks down from the steep, rocky
slopes TO the level plain below. where
stand Bester's farmhouse, EMPOWERED
IN trees. The dongas and water-courses
were dry; the sun bllstered the parched
Veldt. One tried to ina CINE the scene
on the afternoon Of January 6--the
blaekness of the storm, momentarily lit
up by appalling flashes Of lightning, the
merciless driving OF the rain and wind,
the dongas converted into raging tor
rents. These the fleeing Beers tried TO
ford or swim, while our men, mad with
victory and with joy, lined the crest
OF the ridge and fired into the fugitves
until the mists and the night shrouded
from their gaze this veritable valley Of
the shadow OF death Yes January G
Is, indeed, a day which It behoves the
empire never to forget.
some five or six miles from Lady,
smith lies Nicholsons Nek--a place not
so frequently visited. but we'll worth a
visit.
IN THE CEMETERY.
Leaving Ladysnith, one passes on
the left, first, Observation Hill. from
which Ladysmith watched the battle
OF Spion kop; then Surprise Hill. where
a Boer gun was destroyed; Pepworth's
Hlil, miserable mound OF earth. being
some little distance to the right. The
climb up the hill AUDITING on Nichol-
sons Mex is a stiff one, as the grass
conceals the rough stones. which are
everywhere, and the angle is acute. Up-
on arriving at the summit of the hill
an undulating plateau. covered with
grass & feet high-one realizes how I'M
tehable was the position held by Col
onel Carleton and his men.
The small entertainments hurrledly
thrown up by our men are still there.
and In the middle Of the long grass are
some stone obelisks marking the lone
~ graves OF the Gloucesters and the
Royal irish fusiliers who fell I'm action.
Altogether a very sad and solitary hill
crest The wooden crosses on the graves
are without names, and no names are
as yet on the monuments, the place in
the masonry reserved for a marble tab
let being untitled. Some kindly dis
posed person has planted wild flowers.
ana the blooms lend color and beauty
TO the desolation Of the veldt.
Near Devon Post, at the foot OF the
req Doulderstrewn kopje, and bounded
py the silent Kip river lies the Lady,
shllh cemetery. The blue gums and
expresses stand sentinel over the rough,
simple graves below The swish OF the
autumn air makes plaintive music in
lhe patches OF long grass SO many
colonel Dick-Cunyngham. V. c., the
Eail OF ava, are all within a few yards
OF each other. Plain white wooden
crosses mark their last resting-place.
Away out there across the level yeldt
looms BulWana, ~ by the setting snn
ana lying like a dun crimson cloud ON
the dominating horizon. How complete.
~ now hopelessly, hat horizon must
have dominated beleaguered Lady
sr~ifhi
one thinks Of the words Of Door
stevens: Beyond is the world-war
ana love. Clery marching on Colenzo
ana an that man holds dear IN n III
ue island under the North Star" Alas,
mat so many were destined never again
TO know that world beyond until death
came facility and took them"
Nav hey sleep In peace!