Loss of Carleton's Column.
The afternoon wore on and no news came in from Carleton's column on the left. Disaster had evidently befallen it, for stragglers and wounded brought in during the morning stories of an extraordinary stampede of mules during the night, which had thrown the little force into complete confusion.
[Photo by H. Nicholls, Johannesburg.
The waggons on either side of the street were loaded with ammunition and commissariat for a three or four days' fight. Owing to the disaster at Nicholson's Nek they never went into the field. The red-cross flag was flying from the Town Hall, which had been turned into a hospital.
TRANSPORT MULES AT LADYSMITH.
The stampeding of some of these mules led to the disaster at Nicholson's Nek.
BRITISH PRISONERS, CAPTURED AT NICHOLSON'S NEK, ON THE ROAD FROM THE STATION TO THE RACE-COURSE, PRETORIA.