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.
Churchill, who had escaped upon it, came gallantly back to share the fate of his comrades.