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ENGLISH ARMY SURRENDERS
While’s Forces Were Totally Knocked Out
In the Fight at Ladysmith.
BOERS CAPTURE 2,050 MEN
All England Was Greatly As
fctHinded On Receipt of
the Bad News.
All England was astounded Tuesday
by tlio announcement from the war
office of a crushing British defeat and
tho capture of the Royal Irish Fusi
liers and the Gloucestershire regiment,
the cream of the English troops in
South Africa.
Tiie news was received early iu the
morning and came iu tU* shape of a
dispatch from General White, who
takes the entire blame for the disaster.
l>efcat would have been sufficient to
cause displeasure, Imt the announce
ment of the capture of move than 12,000
men, together with almost fifty offi
cers, iiad added to the seriousness of
the situation.
Subsequent dispatches show that
the capture of the troops now ut
Ladysmith is serious, and.news of a
further retreat would not be surpris
ing. The Boers occupy a strong po
sition and au attack on the remaining
troops was impending.
Whlto’a Olapatcli.
Tlio <li t-iilch from General White,
cornimm iing tho British forces at
Lady-moth, reporting that the Boyal
Irish Fusiliers, Ifo. 10 mounted bat
tery ami the Glouceßtershire legimeut
were surrounded in tlio hills by the
Boers, and after losing heavily were
obliged to capitulate, says that the
casualties have not yet been ascer
tained.
Tlio following in the text of General
White a dispatch to tho war office:
Lady-imith, Oct. ffO. (10:30
p. m.) 1 have to report a disas
ter to the column sent by me to
take a position on a bill to guard
the left flank of the troops. In
there operationa today the Royal
Irish Fusilier:., No. 10 mountain
battery and the Gloucestershire
regiment were surrounded in the
hills and after losing heavily had
to capitulate. The casualties
have not yet been ascertained.
A man of the Fusiliers, employ
ed as u hospital orderly, came in
under a llug of truce with a letter*
from ilie survivors of the cdutnn,
win asked for assistance to bury
the dead. I fear there is no doubt
oi the truth of tlie report.
I formed a plan in the carrying
out f which tho disaster occurred
and 1 am alone responsible for tho
plan. There is no blame what
ever to the troops, us the position
was untenable.
Genera! a subsequent dis
patch gi\ i-s mines of ofli 'ern taken pi is
ouet'H. They number forty-two,of whom
five were wounded.
At the government office no effort
was made to conceal the feeling of
dismay caused by the receipt of the
news irosn General White. One offi
oia! said to a representative of the As
sociate 1 Press:
It is inexplicable, and I am
borry to sty that its moral effect
is incsiiaiuble. Wo have lost
heavily in many wars and have
bad regiments almost wiped out,
but tv) have regiments captured,
nu l by the Boors—it is terrible.
An o h mi of the war office said to
tho repros: illative of the Associated
Press:
his do aster is more likely due to
the craze of our younger officers to
4istiug;;i: h hemstdves, obtain men
tion in the dispatches and earn the
Victoria cross, than to the fault of that
splendid veteran, General White, in
spite of his avowal.”
The war office has sent the following
dispatch to Buller:.
“Three extra battalions of foot and
one nu'Urtein butte: y, with reserves,
will 1 .ivo England during the course
of tm days to make good the casual
ties.”
The Ntnrs In Tsmuloit.
A Loudon cable dispatch says:
There was a continuous stream of
callers at the war office until a late
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IHTIMiIPA'K STItIKKS XK>V BtKN.
lllchtfct Tul • Kuowii n.M'tt Thousand* of
hoUnrM Pnmrtjjo,
A special from Newborn, N. C.,
fay?: “A hurricane passed through
this section Monday night. In the
city thousands of dollars of damnge
was done by the tide, which was two
feet higher than d.iriug uuy hurricane
ever known.
“Small boats were thrown into the
public streets and at midnight the
flremeu fought lire from lime barrels
catching lire standing waist deep in
water,
“Many tons of salt and sugar in
bag.? melted and ran into the river.”
hour Tuesday evening, everybody
anxiously inquiriug regarding Mon
day’s casualties, but the war office de
clared that nothing had been received
since Sir George White’s dispatch
communicating the news of the cap
ture of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and
the Gloucestershire regiment.
The delay in getting further intel
ligence was attributed in part to the
break down of the east coast cable, but
it stands to reason that the war office
must be possessed of further
which it is probably not thought ad
visable should be polished as yet.
The disaster has' caused a feeling
: akin to consternation and iu Gloneeß
[ lershire and the north of Ireland,
where the captured regiments were re
cruitod, the black and gloom prevails,
families awaiting with beating hearts
tlie names of the killed and wounded,
which are fully expected to rqach a
high figure. Many homes are already
in mourning in consequence of losses
sustained by those regiments in previ
ous engagements.
Public anxiety was increased by a
special dispatch from Ladysmith, pub
lished in the late editions of the Lou
don afternoon papers, to the effect
that before darkness Monday the Boers
reoccupied the old position held by |
their heavy artillery, which General j
White had reported silenced by the j
guns of the naval brigade from the j
Powerful, and had opened fire again, j
Tho dispatch further says.
The situation is one of grave
anxiety. Beyond doubt the Boor
retirement yesterday (Monday)
was a ruse to draw General Waite
into the hilly country and away
from the British camp.
This last sentence is significant and ;
confirms the opiniou of many experts j
here that General White is allowing
himself to be outgeneraled by Com
mandant General Joubert.
lioer Spider; British Fly.
From the scanty advices received it
seems tolerably certaiu that the disas
ter was simply a repetition of the bat
tle of Majuba hill, though on a larger
scale. The two regiments were al
lowed to march in to a trap set for
them, It is simply a cnee of the Boer
spider and tho British fly.
White May Be Removed.
General Sir George White’s honest
admission of full responsibiliiy aud
the terms of his dispatch are regarded
in some circles as virtually placing his
case in the hands of the home author
ities, and it is even rumored that the
war office has already decided to su
persede him. The report, however,
is discredited in well-informed quar
ters.
About six thousand fresh troops will
arrive at Cape Town within a few days
from England and will bo available to
reinforce General White. Transports
will arrive daily until by the end of a
week 28,00 u troops will have been
landed in south Africa.
These men are intended for General
Sir Redvers Buller’s army, but they
will undoubtedly be detached to Natal
if the situation should become peril
ous.
Tho British army will eventually
reach the huge total of 89,1)34, of
which 69,634 will be regulars and the
other 20,000 miscellaneous but excel
lent colonial troops.
BISHOP TUKNhU ON Kit COER.
He Sympathizes With ICncland, But Hopes
For Boer President.
During the Southwest Georgia an
nual conference of the African Metho
dist Episcopal church at Columbus,
Bishop Turner in an address said:
“Iu my visit last year to South
Africa I talked with President Kruger
and with President Steyu of the Or
ange Free State.
“I liked Steyn because be recog
nized tho authority of the African
Methodist Episcopal church. Kruger,
for a while, did the same because he
did not waut white men to be tamper
ing with the blacks.”
The bishop exclaimed: “I sympa
thize with England, but I fear Kruger
because he is calling on the Lord, and
I believe if Kruger will promise to do
better that God will hear him.”
MONTREAL HOTEL BURNS.
Throe Persons Rost Their I.lvc In tlia
Flames.
The Webster house at Montreal,
Cauada, was burned Tuesday morn
ing. Several persons are supposed to
have been burhed or suffocated. Three
bodies have been recovered, one of
which was identified as that of a scrub
woman.
<}uaranl!no Embargo Raised.
A Shreveport speoial says: The
cold weather has put an end to quar
antine and the embargo will be raised
against all quarantine points iu Louis
iana.
ENGLISH PAPEHS CRiTiCiSE.
The Blunder of General White in
Being Trapped at Ladysmith
Is Severiy Condemned.
The Loudon Morning Post com
ments severely upon the British con
tempt for the enemy, as shown by the
bchlief that the large Boers forces at
Acton Homes could be held back bv
Carletou’s small column. It points
out that even if the British there had
been supplied with auimu nition-4hey
could have held ont only a few hours
longer, inasmuch as they were in the
most complete sense detached, and
because nobody apparently at Lady
smith had idea of their distress or
took any measures to rescue them.
“The column was sacrificed,” 1 says
the Morning Post, “because it was
sent into action gagged and blind
folded. It had neither scout nor pat
rol. Twelve hundred men were thrown
away for lack of cavalry, which would
not have been missed from another
part of the field.”
The Standard, which comments in
similar terms npon “the fact that Gen
eral White made an effort to extricate
the column from the impossible situa-.
tiou into which he bad thrust it,”
draws a sad picture of men, “hoping
for relief and then realizing with bit
terness of heart that someone had
blundered; that they had been forgot
ten by their general and his staff, and
that nothing was left but surrender
and imprisonment at Pretoria Hill un
til the end of the war.”
The Daily Chronicle says: “It is
evident that somebody blundered, but
more details are required before the
blame can be apportioned.”
The Times says: “The dangers of
Sir George White’s plans are patent
even to civilians, but it is not impos
sible that the Cape boys in charge of
the mountain battery, who quite re
cently were suspected of disaffection,
may have been tampered with by the
Boers. Otherwise such a large aud
comprehensive stampede is a very ex
traordinary occurrence from such a
slight cause.
“General White’s whole movement
so far as it cau be understood, from
present information, is open to criti
cism, especially in the complete ab
sence of communication with the main
body.”
MASONS ELECT OFFICERS..
Georgia Grand Podge Transacts Imiir
tant Business at Martin.
At the final meeting of the grand
lodge of Masons of Georgia at Macon,
Wednesday, all the old officers were
re-elected. The election of officers
was tho most important proceedings
of the day. The officers who were
elected are:
W. A. Davis, grand master.
Max Mayerhart, deputy grand mas
ter.
J. D. Harrell, senior grand warden.
Thomas A. Jeffries, junior grand
warden.
James W. Bushin, grand treasurer.
W. A. Wolihin, grand secretary.
R. W. Hubert, grand chaplain.
Henry Banks, senior grand deacon.
B. F. Thurmou, junior grand-dea
con.
George M. Napier, grand marshal.
W. B. Hay good, first grand steward.
James B. Clements, second grand
steward.
A. H. Woodruff, third grand stew
ard.
The grand tyler is always appointed
by the grand master, but no name has
yet been announced.
GEORGI A PROHIS MEET.
Resolution Adopted Asking For Restric
tion of Suffrage.
The prohibitiouist of the state of
Georgia met in Atlanta Wednesday
morning with many delegates present.
The convention was presided over by
the president, Colonel C. R. Pringle.
The body was organized after which
the meeting resolved itself into an ex
perience meeting, the different dele
gates relating their idea aud experi
ences in reference to the whisky traf
fic and the best manner in which to
stamp it out of the state.
Among the resolutions unanimously
adopted by the convention was the
following:
“Resolved, That we heartily favor
the enactment of such a law as will
eliminate the ignorant and purchasa
ble element of our voters in Georgia.
And that we urge the legislature now
iu session to take steps looking to the
accomplishment of this resolution.”
SUES FOR $750,000.
Mr*. Fife Claims She l>ld Not Get Full
Fortune.
Mrs. George Fife, daughter of the
late Nicholas Lunning. of San Frau
<!isco, has brought suit against George
Whittel for §750,000. Complainant
alleges that in the settlement of her
father’s estate she was not given the
fall amount due her under her father’s
will.
She was allowed $300,000 and she
now affirms that she should have been
paid $1,250,000. Plaintiff charges that
she was misinformed and did not un
derstand the true condition of the
estate.
VESSEL U)STV
Steamer Coldwell, Lumber Laden,
Sank ByHurricane.
CAPTAIN TUB SOLE SURVIVOR
Unfortunate Man Was Taken
From Wreckage of His Ship
By Passing Vessel.
The steamer Navahoe, Captain Sta
ples, arrived at Charleston, S. C.,
Wednesday morning from New York.
On Monday she encountered .the gals,
stood out to sea and hove to for
eighteeen hours.
On Tuesday, about fifty miles east
of Charleston lightship, she rescued
Captain John G ask ill, sole survivor of
tho crew of the steamer George L.
Colwell, of Detroit, bound to New
York from Fernandinn, Fla., with a
cargo of lumber. Captain Gaskill was
clinging to a piece of wreckage of Ilia
lost vessel, to which he had clung for
twenty-two honrs.
Captain Staples and his officers dis
played care and skill in rescuing Cap
tain Gaskill. At first a skiff was low
ered with a picked crew; this was
smashed against the iron hull of the
steamer and the crew struggled man
fully in the angry sea until hauled in
by life lines. Captain Staples steamed
near the wreckage, a line was thrown
to Captain Gaskill, who made it fast
around his waist ahd was hauled
aboard.
He had been badly bruised. He
was kindly eared for on board and is
now in St. Francis Xavier infirmary in
Charleston progressing favorably.
Captain Gaskill says that the storm
struck him with full force Monday be
fore daylight. The fury of the wind
and force of the waves caused his ves
sel to spriug a leak. Heavy seas were
shipped. The pumps were worked,
but became choked and the cargo shift
ed in the hold. The vessel broke into
pieces.
This was about ten miles northeast
of Cape Romain. Captaiu Gaskill and
crew of thirteen clung to wreckage,
which turned over several times. He
saw ten of his crew engulfed in the
waves, and is of the opinion the others
shared like fates. Captain Gaskill la
ments the loss of his crew deeply and
is grateful to Captain Staples and offi
cers of the Navahoe for their noble ef
forts.
SI.OOF ADRIFT.
The Bay line steamer Gaston, Cap
tain Porter,sighted a drifting sloop off'
Tangier island, Chesapeake bay, Tues
day morning. On being overhauled,
John Pettigrew a young man from
Norfolk, Va., was found on board
asleep.
The sloop, Lloyd Hudgin, was turn
ed adrift aud soon afterward went
aground. The boy stated that his
brother went ashore Sunday night,
leaving him in charge of the sloop,
which broke anchor chain and had
been drifting thirty-six hours.
TWO SCHOONERS LOST.
A special from Wilmington, N. C.,
says: The two-masted schooner Stone
wall, Captain Millikeu, from Wilming
ton to Shallotte, N. C., with a cargo
of merchandise, was caught in Tues
day’s storm after she had entered Sha
lotto river, and was blown out to sea.
Vessel and cargo with crew supposed
to be lost.
Two-masted schooner, Stella Lee,
Captain Williamson, bound for Shal
lotte with cargo of naval stores and
produce, given up ns lost.
The little tug, Woodward, of the
Capo Fear quarantine station, and a
small launch also belonging to the
government, w r ere broken loose from
tbeir moorings and sunk iu the storm.
Probable Stoneware Combine.
A special from from Columbus, 0.,
says: The prospects are that within
the next mouth all the stoneware fac
tories east cf the Mississippi river will
be consolidated under the name of the
National Stoneware company.
TEXAS IS OBDURATE.
Sli<> Will Not Raise quarantine Until
Wen (Her Is Favorable.
The Louisiana state hoard of health
is making au earnest effort to have
Alabama and Texas raise their quar
antines against New Orleans now that
Mississippi has done so, aud earnest
telegrams have been sent to the offi
cials of both states.
Dr. Blunt, of Texas, however, wired
the Louisiana state board that bo
could not consent to the raising of the
quarantine until the weather condi
tions justified it. Several towns iu
Louisiana have also refused to lift the
embargo.
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