The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-29

General Stewart reached that point he found
the enemy lowering about his little army on
all sides and skirting il often with uncom-
fortably short range. The rebels had evil
IDENTIFY stationed themselves in the vicinity
TO await his arrival and give him battle.
When they begau 70 surround him aud press
Ia upon him he determined to abide the
event. be ordered his men to dis
mount and form zarebs. This
was made mainly with the saddles and
baggage. and during its construction
the rebel rifemen drew nearer and main
tanned hot fire from blind anbushes and
such hiding places as they could find among
the high grass. Their fire was very we'll di-
rected, and was most disastrous in its effect
upon the British troops. Twelve men were
soon shot dead and forty others stricken
down with ugly wounds. Among the first
killed were Mr.. Cameron, special CORE
spondent Of the London Standard, aud Mr..
Hefberts, special correspondent of the Lon
don Post.
General Stewart was one of the very first
TO be wounded. He was shot in the thigh.
When he was shot the work ef making the
zaIeba was about completed and the army
bad been put in motion to form its battle
array. Tsis was a hollow square, and was
formed in the following order: In front the
Naval brigade and Grensdler Guards; on the
right flank the Cold Stream Guards and
Scots Guards; on the left flank, mounted
infantry. and on the rear the Sussex regi-
ment and heavy camel corps. As soon as
completed, the square advanced under q
steady ambush fire for a distance of two
miles. at this point the enemy began to
move upon the square in two large ecnelons.
These were directed against the British right,
the front of which stood unmoved. Dur
ing the rebel charge the English troops
forming the ssssiled front delivered terrific
IRE, aimed right 81 the enemy's middle,
moving down the men in such heaps they
formed actual obstacles, and interfered so
seriously with the evenness necessary to the
success of the onslsught that the center line
was brought 10 a standstill about sixty yaro
from the British front line. The force of the
general movement threw the unimpeded part
OF the line likefh ends of broken timber
around the corners of square, and the
rebels so displaced were simply cut TO pieces.
From this on the warfare was disastrous to
the rebels. When the enemy's line was
broken the Arabs seemed to break up into
bands, each OF which wsged war on its own
account. large detachment on horseback
went back TO attack the zsreba. This was
garTisoned by q body OF English soldiers,
made D of little detachment left bahind
by each corps which had gone forward in
the square. Lord Charles Beresford was in
command. He sustained the attack for two
hours, when thu enemy was compelled to
retreat. During the general attack upon tbs
square only six men were killed and Lwenty-
six wounded on the English side. Captain
Norton worked the guns during this fight,
ard his firing did awful execution.
Stewart and force on leaving GakdGl
Wells consisted OF 1000 picked fighting Gen
as follows Ninety men OF the Nineteenth
Hussars, three divisions of the camel corps,
in all about 0S0 men, 400 mounted infan-
try, royal artillery, battery of forty men.
thirty, royal engineers, fifty men of naval
brigade, royal Sussex Regiment. go strong,
eighty men OF the Essex Regiment, fifty
men Of the transport corps, and as many of
tha medical staff corps.
Later dispatches received at the war Office
show that Lord ST. Vincent was not as fret
reported killed in the battle fought in the
detert on the l9.h inst. He died frnm q
wound received on the 18th at Abu Kleas
Only two British officers were killed in the
zsYeba fight. The other dead were nog com
missicned officers aud privstes.