Show I WAS VAS TERRIBLE Of ATH ATHi i Frightful F Slaughter of Brit British ish in Boer Trap 4 i MULES OTLES STAMPEDED UNDER DEADLY FIRE 1 f T Terror error Was Vas Added Addel to the Fear Fearful Fearful Fearful ful Situation 4 0 All A li England Dismayed at the Disaster Disaster Disaster ter That Th t Has Occurred to the Im Imperial penal Troops Under the Shadow Shado of Narrow arrow Escape of Colonel Command From Prom Complete Extinction Re Reported ported R of Several Guns c s Kop Sunday April 1 The T he Boers who were hidden in the p when the British guns were cap Ired h were vere commanded by a The Boers Boors retired this morning when they hey tho t d the British scouts l two Dutch military attaches one o ne of them dangerously wounded in inthe Inthe the hands of the British All the wounded are doing well wen wener er ouo agrees that but for Colo Cob Colonel Cobol net nel a ol handling of ofis his h is troops not c t t of the force would have The Boers are till still s holding the waterworks and the theine ino lino l of hills behind them The for dispatch settles the disputed d point arising from the dis discrepancy discrepancy c in the dispatch from Bush mans Kop of Saturday and Lord Rob Roberts Roberts erts e dispatch of yesterday referring to he the t time tAme the engagement between the tho British B and Boers Boors occurred which is isnow isnow Isow now n ow shown to be Saturday and not I Sunday S as us might have been inferred from f rom tho th message mes tage of ot the tho commander I Following the scouts of General Frenchs cavalry division to the scene of o f battle this correspondent witnessed one o ne of the most terrible spectacles of the he t war Horses lay Jay stiffened in the various arious v attitudes of sudden death and mingled among them were wel ghastly hu human human human man bodice bodiee with ith tho the wrecks of wagons wagon and food and forage scattered wide de Everything told of a terrible tale of surprise s a and carnage carnag It would be impossible to conceive of anything a more ingenious than han the Boer trap and the only wonder is that a single ingle s man escaped UDder a Galling Fire Tire On crossing the where the ground rises Immediately toward a grassy knoll with stony slopes facing the tho drift one came upon an art enclosure from front which it was possible to fire over the drift drilL At this point the makes a circular bend while the south embankment which is protected prot led by the partially constructed railway embank embankment embankment ment mont enabled the rhe enemy to pour in a galling fire on three sides as well as a double tier of fire lire in front When ihen the convoy como was first attacked a scene of frightful confusion followed When the first battery appeared the The mules stampeded d and the wagons were overturned while the concealed enemy poured In a deadly fire Boers seemed of continuing the tho slaughter and called upon the British to surrender At that moment however B battery which was es en escaping escaping caping from the rear of the convoy un under under under der heavy fire wheeled into action and began shelling the Boers Boors with the four remaining guns The Boers Boors confess that this battery accounted for five killed and nine wounded of their losses Early in the afternoon the Boers col cob collected collected about the convoy began bagan removing removing ing the runs and anel wagons and permit permitted ted the collection of the British dead d ad and wounded Our actual casualties I were less than had been expected Despite this regrettable incident it U itis UI is impossible not to 10 admire the gallant I manner in which the little force was wasI I able to extricate Itself from an almost I hopeless hopel position |