The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-08
THE S0UDAN SITUATION
Apparently Becoming More Serious and
Gloomy for England.
NO oTlDlNGS OF GoRooN's FATE,
But the Most Reliable News Records
His Death.
STEWARDS ARMY IN DANGER.
Italy Anxious to Aid England and Send.
ing ThOusands of Men to the Nile
Battle -ground'-EI Mahdrs
Followers Jubilant.
STEWARDS ARMY IN DANGER.
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.


THE RE1NFoRCEMENrS
LONDON, Feb. IA dispatch from Me-
rawi says the Black Watch and Stat
regiments passed the Bahami
cataract on their way to the front. They
destroyed the houses of Suleiman Wad
Gamz, who perpetrated the massacre of
Col. Stewart and party. The rebels
have abandoned Shankvok pass. Much
and grain was stored there.
The Cornwall regiment is now passing
the cataract.
MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED.
The Telegraph has received dispatch
from its special correspondent at Abu
Klea, on the Nile, not far from Metem.
neh. The dispatch is dated February |,
and says: "Col. Wilson and party state
that Khartoum fell ON January q. The
river banks above the sixth cataract are
crowded with Arabs. Ell Mahdi, in
letter calling on our officers to surren-
der, implies that Gen. Gordon is alive.
Fen. Stewart expects to be closely in.
vested here"
woLsELEY's PROCLAMATION.
The following dispatch has Just been
received from near Metemneh, Feb
ruary O, in which Gen. Wolseley has is
sued the following proclamation:
TO the Notables and the Inhabitants of the
Soudan:
England has sent me with an army to
restore peace, not to collect taxes or to
lnJure any one. | will pay you for all
supplies and guarantee to execute
Gen. Gordon's promises. Only those
deserving punishment at our hands will
ranAiWn if COLL IN
and not to listen TO evil advisers. Come
into my camp anu see my officers. No
ono shall harm you, either coming or
returning"
woLsELKY TO THE GOVERNMENT,
Gen. Wolseley reports to the govern
ment that, although III Mahdi's irregu-
lars are reported gathering around The
point where the English are wrecked,
no suspicion OF treachery is enter
tanned. The wrecked steamers
hurried their retreat at night and al
tered the current OF the river, which
had fallen two feet in single day.
Some Of our marksmen say the enemy
are lining earthworks on both banks Of
the river for two miles north of Khar-
toum. They number, altogether, about
1900, of whom 1000 are indiffer-
ent rliiemen. -Four good shots
edly silenced one,of I'll Mahdi's Krupp
guns. During the darkness the steam
ers slipped past the rebels, shot the rap.
ids and arrived within sixty miles of
the fort, when one of them grounded.
The second stranded twenty miles lowor
down, where Col. Wilson and the Sus-
SEX detachment still remain. Col.
Wortley, with three English soldiers
and party of natives in boat, reached
here at 3 o'clock this morning, February
9. Sir Charles Beresford's steamer
with twenty picked marksmen FROM the
Royal Rifles, started this afternoon TO
attempt TO relieve them. Col. Wortley
had rowed forty or fifty miles during
the night. All Col. Wilson's stores,
guns and ammunition are in deep water
and beyond recovery. No lives we're
lost by the wrecking of tho steamers.
Coz. Wilson'S party have entronchod
themselves on Q sandy island.
The steamers while going up tho
river travelled principally during
night, to avoid an exceedingly hot fire.
which ceased when the men advanced
with white flag, bearing
LETTER FROM Ell MAHDI
to the English officers, in which II was
stated that Khartoum had been captured
without the firing of u shot, and that the
city and Gen. Gordon are now in his
hands. Col. Wilson ascertained that
khattoum fell on the night of January
q. Faraz Pasha and other Egyptian
commanders entered into secret nego-
tions with Eel Mahdl to get all
tho Egyptian troops on one side of the
city, and while one detachment at
taoked the boats, another would open
the iand;way. On the third days jour
ney up the river, natives shouted from
the bank that Khartoum had fallen.
Inc enemy were found entrenchcd on
the river bank.
EXCITEMENT sUBsIDING.
The excitement over the fall of Khar-
toum is subsiding and military crit
les now consider the troops at Metemneh
safe II Gen. Earle's advance to Berber is
hastened, and reinforcements hurried
on nom kNrt. The decision of the cab
met to give Wolseley full power to act,
has calmed the public mind. Orders
nave been sent TO Gibraltar and Malta
TO prepare for the immediate dispatch
OF all available troops to tho Soudan.
Gen. Wolseley has adopted Gen. Steph.
ems advice, to send strong
force to SuslSim. IL is re.
ported that Indian troops will garrison
Suakinl,and that the whole force OF 6,00C
British Will advance on Berber The
expedition will be composed of drafts
rom the Indian regiments and the ac-
climated British troops now in Egypt,
VINO VIII be replaced by drafts from
England.
THE GOVERNMENT HAs'pEcIpEp
10 maintain the full strength of the gar
rlson IN Egypt. The Indian government
mas expressed Its readiness to embark
fr0m Bombay for GOrkha infantry and
Sikh lancers within a fortnight.
THE STORY OF THE SURRENDER,
The following dispatch comes from
near Metemneh, dated February @:
Five natives, present Mt the surrender
OF khartoum, declare that the rebels
admitted, through txeachery, two
pashas who had formerly been nun,
ished by Gen. Gordon. IL IL reported
that the officers commanding the three
steamers, which remained at Khartoum
TOOK III Mahdi's troops to the main gate
oil the city, when they were admitted
under the darkness Of the night. Two
of the natives declare that
GEN. GORDON WAS KILLED.
Inc Others are equally positive that hC
LOON refuge in fort with the faithful
There Is no doubt whatever that the
main portion OF Khartoum Is occupied
by the rebels. Col. Wortloy saw then
thronging the streets. On the rout,
down the river bv Enrllsl
steamers several OF our mel
narrowly escaped capture. A
the sixth cataract they wer,
compelled TO parley with the ensm,
under pretense OF surrendering. A mes
sage was received from El Mahdi, sta
ung that Gen. Gordon had become /