The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-31
General Wolseley Makes Move with
the Entire English Forces 10 the
the frOat Cholera at
Alexandria.
The Loss of the Egyptian Troops are
Estimated at not Less than Four
Hundred.
The Enemy Nntilate the Dead Bodics
Of the British who
Fell.
A kanir, Ex-Chief, aud His Followers
Killed by His successor In Onice.
Snow In Leadville The Kewauee Bank
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Other Foreign and Domestic News
Other Foreign and Domestic News
War Notes

LONDON, August p-A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Ismaila SAYS: We
have now nearly established our line of
with Tel.el.Kebir. Tn.
railway along the route is nearly completed
aud several trains have already been sent
forward. General Wolseley and his entire
army are marching to the front.
General Wolsely telegraphs from cavalry
headquarters at Mahmovd Camp, on Tues.
day, that only the Household cavalry and
seventy dragoOn guards were seriously in.
lured in the fight at Kassasin. Lite on
Monday evening the former had three
troopers killed and eight wounded. Major
townsend received sabre cut on his wrist
The guards had two troopers wounded.
A mtrchant who left Cairo on the o6th
reports that Arab Pasha, Ali Fehmy and
number of troops from Kaiir-el.Dwar
were at Tel-el. katir when he passed there.
An important order was received at
Woolwich to-day to be Observation-Disclosures at
once light seize train. Ii will weigh
with equipments 1000 tons aud will re.
quire l36 officers and men. The ordnance
will consist of thirty six pieces of artillery
OF various caibres, including ten iC-nounI.
A dispatch from Ismalia to Reuters tel.
egraph company says; The British are nd.
yancing IN full force toward Kassasin.
The Daily News has the following. dated
lsmailia, August 80: The British did not
anticipate the recent attack The result
shows that they were ready for anything.
II IS reported that the enemy fled to Tel-el.
kebir. Other positions remain much ne
they were, but the cavalry have advanced
few miles on the extreme right.
A dispatch to the News from Alexandria
says: Two hundred and fifty marines from
the Invincible and Inconstant will land
here Thursday 10 assist the garrison. Nah.
moud Fehmy viii arrive in Alexapdru
Thursday, and be handed over to the khe.
dive to be dealt with as the ministers NAV
dre,t.
A correspondent of the News, telegraph.
rom lsmailia as follows. | rode over tb,
scene OF tho cavalry charge at Kasassin.
found two acres thickly strewn with the
corpses OF the enemy. Some of our cavalry
were still seeking our dead and wounded
Two dead Life Guardsmen were so mutt
lated that they were quite unrrcou
nizable. Their faces were horribly gsshed
One OF the men bad one hand completed,
severed from the arm, and the otbc,
hand nearly SO, and one of his eyes was
sc0oped from the socket. The hands of AN.
other body were just hanging to the wrist,
by p eces of skin and some sinew.. A
wounded euardSman relates that i'm the
charge his horse was shot and in falling
broke the riders thigh. While living on tbe
field he says the Egyptian soldiers rode by
and he called for help, whereupon ai
Egyptian rode up and sabred the guards
mans face from temple to chin. The man
Is now, however, doing well. The enemy,
loss must have been at least 400.
lshAILIA, August 30.-Thc official report
OF Geberal Lowe regarding the action Of
the cavalry ut kassasin confirms the de-
tails already ielegraphed. He saws the
ground was strewn with the bodies of IN,
dead Egyptian infantry. Aiter praisjnp
the galantry Of the Household cavalry.
General Lowe adds that the excellent be-
havlor is at all times on par with il. Gen
eral Wolseley states the enemy are now
throwing up works in front of X Kassasin,
ALR1ANDRIA, August 30.-lt is stated that
Arab Pasha is strongly tortifying his posi
tion at Dumonhour, All was quiet ut Cairo
up to the 18th instant. At lao %, M, Gen.
eral Hawley, with the brigade of High
lander from ltsmlet, under General Allison
is now embarking here. The Greek iron
clad has left here for Valo. in couse
quence OF collision between the Turks
aud Greeks on the Turko.Greek frontier
Much uneasiness is felt here owing to the
existence OF cholera on board vessels now
coming to Alexandria from Alden.
Gem raj Hawley and the brigade of High
landers under General Allison, have EN-.
barked on four transports for Ismailia. Gen.
eral Sir Evelyn Wood has assumed the chic
command Of troops in Alexandria and VI
cinity.