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ft 1) e Dalles VOL. XII THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1900. NO 181 HORRIBLE TALES OF THE BOER WAR Surgeon's Description of the Battle of PILES OF DEAD AND WOUNDED Sufferers Lay in the Mazing Sun All Day Witlinut Relief Bullet Wounds Clean, Shell Wounds Horrible. i.tjeta a : jw jet AA'ijea.vjnjev. m EVERYBODY Knows the merits of the Bin Lomion, March 15. (Correspondence of tin- v-HJci.ili'd Prees.) For reul ghust linos?, fur n glimpse into the 'gory Tvnli tics of war mill the horrora of the battle field, thu private loiter of n young medical officer at Spion Kop, printed hi the Daily Graphic, can scarcely be beaten ; "1 selected n pass," ho wrilep, "over jump hy steep clay hank?, on the top of which 1 got up a lied UroHS Hag. Cases now began to pour down from Splon Kop on atrutrhers. Tlio Boers opened liru on iih, and throe tnilletB ".went into the fire, knocking the Hticks.bout. The reason for this fire was not the Red Cross flag, hut owing to some Tommies who were strolling over to it. I prompt ly ordered them uway. A few .minutes after thu Boera let fly live shells in quick tuccesslnn in uiy direction, but they fell eliort and did no harm, "From this time to 1 io'clock next morning the wounded came through my drcesing station, as the pnaa woa the only exit from the hill. I saw every c;iae, and hoiuo of them were mutilated beyond description. Fully 330 wounded nnd dead, who had died on the way, passed through my hands. Many a poor chap shot in the morning in the front trendies who could nut be reached lay in the blazing bud all day. "Onu old Colonel In Thorneycroft'e walked down leaning on hid rifle, his chin, neck uiul choat aleo ehot rlirough by others, and his hack and legs torn by hells, hu came in and aaid lie juat dropped in to let me take his finger off 9 it was bo Bhattered lie could not pull the trigger of his rifle, Taa it got in the way of the next finger, which he could use, for hu wanted to get Lack up the lilll to pay the Dutchmen back. Of courae I would not lot him go back. The bullet wounds ure beautifully clean, juet a round hole, nnd as n rule do not do much damage, aa they often go through the bone withoutahaltering It, and they uo not blued much. Tlie shell wounds re hideout. "It wiib now frightfully dark, and I Put onu of the luuterna on a stick aa a directing light to my pnsa ; one of a group of eoldiera returning to tlio hill tried to urn nway with it. Shortly after this both liinterna went out, and I had a pretty haul time of it, aa the paaa often Rot blocked with wounded. Finally I could Bund no more wounded ocroaB the d'i't, and had to stack them with the lead in rowH on tlio graaa. I collected a'l the wounded ofllcera on stretchers wound me nnd Knve them brandy and a hypodermic of morphine. "Commandants Uatha and Burgese, ho weie tho Door generals, came up at daybreak. Tho former, who waa the cl'M general, was a small, thin mau, w'lh yellow beard nnd hair, and had a '"BBiilfleent mi,,, beautifully carved h hln name nnd a text from the Bible. o had a couple ol Kafllrs, carrying his "miMiitlun una water bottle, nnd an nterproter. 10 seemed, however, to JJ'wrstnml English, though he relused epi'uk It. There were quite a number , , e,r,mi" "Ulcers. J heard ono of them beoi, killed. They let our meu "fell tllll denil fnr tl.ol. U..iln.ll..n - - aw. ft.iu.l lUVUWUURMVIi ll.ll...,. I r. . thu n. " money, nevern. oi COLUMBIA HARTFORD PATEE CREST $50. $35. $25. Mnny new features for 1900 which you cannot afford to overlook. Complete Line of "1900" Sundries. 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The numerical superiority of the British troops leaves no doubt in the minds of the critics here that Lord Roberts will accomplish his immediate objective he occupation of Bloemfontein. The Commander-in-Chief's latest dis patch announcing that General Gatacre is at Betbulie Bridge and the specials saying that Gatacre commands the bridge approaches, puts the Boers in that vicinity between two British forces, Asvcge Kop, whence Lord Roberts sent his last cable message being 100 miles almost due north of Bethulie. However, there is a large plain between them and the main body of the Boers now con fronting Lord Roberts, with its ceaseless activity, may be quite able to cover the retreat of the burghers confronting Gen eral Gatacre. Once the British are in control of the railroad from Betbulie to Bloemfontein the junction at the Free State capital of General Gatacre and Roberts would be a matter of a very few days. 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