The Archive · 1899

Details of the Destruction of the Armoured Train

A. dispatch from Estcourt, dated the 15th instant, states that the Boers shelled an armoured train, which was reconnoitring, at Chievely, five miles' goathward of Colenso. They shattered seven-pounder and derailed tivo trucks, and, poimnded the disabled train. The engine escaped with the wounded. The crew: of the train numbered 180 men, of whom fifty of the Dublin Fusiliers and forty Natal Volunteers are missing, as is also], the war correspondent, Mr. Winston

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