Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-11-23
A GREAT BATTLE.
Hicks Pasha's Army Almost A.
INFLATED
BY FORCES OF THE FALSE PROPHET.
The Fight Occurs Near eI 0Ssid, aad Lasts
for Two 0ays-wOndeful Bravery
in the End Defeated by
Great Odds.

LoSpoy, November PA dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company, dated Cairo.
s:25 this morning, says: The army OF
Hicks Pasha has been destroyed BY the
forces Of Fl Madhi, the False Prophet In.
telligence OF the disaster vas brought 10
Khartoum BY Coptic officials. The fight.
ing is said to have been continued from the
Sd to the 5,h inst, and to have resulted in
the complete annihilation OF the Egyptian
troops. II is stated that an European artist
was the only person who escaped.
The Forces Engaged.
The forces OF Ell Mahdi 10 comprised, IL is
estimated, OF three hundred thousand men.
and included Dervishes, Bedouins, mulat-
toes and regulars. The battle was fought
near FL Obeid. FL Mahdi first sent forward
the Dervishes. declaring they would van
quish the enemy by divine aid. Subse-
9ueutly the regulars Joined in the attack,
and later the engagement became general.
The army OF Hicks Pasha, which early In
the battle was divided into two bodies, was
subsequently reunited and formed .
SQUARE" which forces the False Prophet
broke after three days OF desperate fight
ing. A council of Ministers has been held.
and il has been decided 10 concentrate st
khartoum what Egyptian troops remain
at Dusm GOba and other places in Soudan.
The force under Hicks Pasha Is comprised
Of -, 40 men. He had with him ten Brit
ish officers.
An Order CoUntrrmAnded.
O'ponovan, Of the London Daily News,
and All artist connected with n German
illustrated paper. also accompanied the
army. Evelyn Barring hiss advised the
Egyptian government 10 abandon Soudau
and to establish q strong frontier line from
khartoum in North Senaar, to the provinces
Of Guak im on the Red Sea. IL Is reported
that the recent orders for the evacuation uf
Egypt by the British troops has been coun .
ter. anCCd
NOrE E--Notwithstanding the above re
ports A. to the numbers engaged in the bat
lie, the military correspondents OF the
English papers have written that on the
>,b q September Hicks Pasha marched ont
81 Khartoum with seven thousand regular
infantry four hundred cavalry (ot which
one hundred were Cuirassiers and the re.
maindsr Bisbi BsZouks'. one battery ~
Krrpp guns, two batteries OF mountain
,unE. and one battery OF Nordsnfelds.
An IsIImnIc of 81 MHhdt's strength.
Al frrair and Duem, on the route "a III
Obeid, Hicks Pasha was TO bs reinforced
with 600 regular infantry and 900 sddi-
tional shi.iiazouks. making his total
command only about 10000. After leaving
III. Nile Ell route u IL Obeid. some eight
posts were 10 be established to keep up Q
line OF communication, which would
require a total detail OF nearly 3,OOu
men, leaving FOO available forces
OF all arms to meet twenty thousand men
reported under III Mahdi. The prominent
sheiks under III Mahdi In September
claimed his fo'ces numbered 2)0,OcO; that
they had Remington guns and rockets.
which they had taken from the Turks, but
FL Mahdi had forbidden their use. Only
spears and swords will be used by his fight
ing men.
The Death of German Historias.