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Show TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER , OF BRITISH TROOPS ' 1 New York, Feb. 2S. But for the surrender of General Cronje, which oveTahadowed the news from Natal, England would ' bo shuddering over the British reverses at Railway Hill, where the Inniskilling futillens were caught in a Boer trap and slaughtered. Tthe London Mail's correspondent, under un-der date of Pieters, Feb. .24, describes the engagement: "Last night the Inniskilling fusiliers, mixed with some of the Dublin fusiliers and the Connaught rangers, attempted to carry Railway Hill from Pieters. They were under a. continuous fire, through which they passed up the heavy, broken ground to the first Boer trench. Half way up the hill the Boers retreated to the crost, and then came back on either flank of the Irish troopa, enfilading the captured trench with a savage cross, as well as a direct fire. "All night and until 9 o'clock in the morning our men held the position un der a ceaseless Are and at ternDie cost. At roll call only five officers and 100 men answered to their names. Colonel Thackery and Major Saunders of tthe InniskilFings: Colonel Sitwell of the Dublin fusiliers; Captain Maitland. of tihe Second Gordons, and Colonel Thor-old Thor-old of the Welsfh fusiliers were killed. Two hundred and fifty-two of the rank and file were killed or wounded. "General Lyttleton's brigade relieved them at 10 o'clock this. morning, when the Boer artillery pounded the troops holding the center . .kopjes without pause, but with little '..'effect;'" |