Meerkatsfontein Clash Reported Amid Boer British Losses
Telegraphs from April recount major victories and heavy British casualties. Dewet’s forces claim 600 killed or wounded and 999 captured with 12 wagons, while Pretoria reports 690 killed or wounded and 80 prisoners. Mob talks of a Boer victory near Kroonstad with 900 British casualties.
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London
Daily Mail
Brandfort
Dewect
Meerkatsfontein
The
Daily News
Pretoria
Delagoa Bay
Lorenzo Marquez
Netherland Railway Company
Kroonstadt
Meerksatfontein
Kroonstad
Ramatahlabama
Plumer
Bodle
Rolt
Manning
Fifth Drag
Boers Fire On British at Elandslaagte Amid Skirmishes
April reports note Boer artillery exchange with British at Elandslaagte. Naval support from Philomel’s gunners accompanies a three hour bombardment. Casualties include a private death and several wounded, withBoers unmasking six guns and resuming shelling before British counterfire.
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Ladysmith
Elandslaagte
V Philomel
Kopje
Seer Eaae Kee Sees Ter Eee
The fragment reads like garbled OCR with unreadable names and places. No coherent event or entities can be identified for a factual summary.
Distress of British Commanders Amid Orange River Moves
General Roberts reports active enemy action as allied forces shift to the north bank of the Orange River near Aliwal North. British commanders Gatacre and Stormberg are under scrutiny for delayed responses while Boer leaders in the region press plans for Rhodes and Portugal.
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London
Roberts
War Office
Prarvon
Merketsfoulgia
Doefentein
Unoland
Stormberg Bers
Gatacre
Reddershaure
Bardte
Portugal
Rhodes
Severe cold wave grips central west and Midwest
A severe cold wave expands from the West to the Midwest with temperatures plunging well below normal. Reports show 8 degrees at Denver and 18 below at Dodge City as storms threaten rain and snow across Colorado Wyoming Nebraska Kansas Iowa and parts of Texas and New Mexico.
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Chicago
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Trueiyois
Kentucky
Denver
Douze City
Kas
United States Weather Bureau
Austin
Tex
Rartronda
Early migrants routed to Oklahoma amid coast inspections
Reports from Ottomwa Iowa and Tyler Texas dated April 11 describe a fresh influx of arrivals guided toward Oklahoma after tight Atlantic coast checks. In Clarke county Missouri Andrew Newman committed suicide by drowning, cited as illness related, while a collision on the International and Great Northern near Tyler killed fireman J. J. Lyons and injured engineer B. F. Eckerman with a leg fracture.
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Ottnomwa Lla
Andrew Newman
Clarke County
Missouri
Tyler
Tex
International and Great Northern
J. J. Lyons
B. FB. Ecerman
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Aliwal
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Texas
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United States
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Ile
Michigan
Wood
Secm
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el Paso
Juarez
Mes
Bryan Grocery Co
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the Bryan Grocery CO
Tom A. Searcy
Dey
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Atlantic
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Zchavce Hotel
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Dee Mike, JR
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