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An intelligent
horseman would gather more information, be less visible, and retain
some freedom as to route. After our experience the armoured train
may steam out of military history.
The train contained ninety Dublin Fusiliers, eighty Durban
Volunteers, and ten sailors, with a naval 7-pounder gun. Captain
Haldane of the Gordons, Lieutenant Frankland (Dublin Fusiliers),
and Winston Churchill, the well-known correspondent, accompanied
the expedition. What might have been foreseen occurred. The train
steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to
escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset. Dublins and
Durbans were shot helplessly out of their trucks, under a heavy
fire. A railway accident is a nervous thing, and so is an
ambuscade, but the combination of the two must be appalling. Yet
there were brave hearts which rose to the occasion. Haldane and
Frankland rallied the troops, and Churchill the engine-driver. The
engine was disentangled and sent on with its cab full of wounded.


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