Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-12
FALL OF KHARTOUM.
The City In Possession OF b
Mahdis Hordes.


Mahdi's Hordes.
General Wilson Arrives q Few DAVIS Too
Late-The Fate of General Gordon I'M
known-Either Dead Or a Prisoner
Fears For Stewart.
FALL OF KHARToUM AND CAPTURE or COR.
DON.
LONDON, February 5.-A decided SEN
sation was created here to-day by the re.
ported capture of Khartoum. The news
spread throughout the city, and crowds
gathered in front of the War Office. news.
paper offices and other news centers for
the purpose of obtaining the latest infor-
nation.
Inc report was subsequently confirmed
by the announcement that dispatch had
been received at the War Office from Cen
eral Wolseley, dated at Korti, which states
that native courier from Metamneh had
arrived at headquarters with information
that Colonel Wilson had returned from
khartoum, to which place he had been
dispatched with small force on a steam
er found at Metamneh upon it's capture,
and reported that Khartoum had been
captured by the enemy, and that Gordon
had been made prisoner of war.
Wilson said that all along his retreat
from the Inflated city he was constantly
harrassed and subjected to a heavy fire
from the enemy's guns. Many shots
struck the steamer without doing serious
damage.
Everything went comparatively well
until within short distance of Metamneh.
when the vessel ran ashore on one of the
many Islands, and was total wreck,
Colonel Wilson states that Khartoum
fell on the 18th of January. He arrived
OFF the city two days after the fall. He
expressed the belief that the capture
was brought about by the treachery of
some OF the natives that Gordon had
pressed into service.
Wilson, with light force at last &C.
counts, was still on the island on which
he was wrecked, awaiting steamer to
take them to Metamneh.
''The courier reports" adds Wolseley,
''that the fall of khartoum caused gen
eral feeling of gloom throughout General
Stewards camp, and fears were freely
expressed that unless reinforcements
soon arrived their fate would in all prob.
ability be soon sealed.
EXCITEMENT IN LONDON.
LONDON, February 5.-The confirma-
ton of the fall of Khartoum has caused
the widest excitement throughout the
city, far exceeding in intensity any that
has been reused by any of the startling
of hn ST faxu
ment officials and sympathizers hope the
news will turn out to be greatly exagger-
ated, and express the belief that Gordon
has not been driven from the citadel, in
the center of the city.
The streets are thronged with people
anxiously discussing the ominous intelli-
gence, and grave fears are entertained
that none of Stewards little band will
ever recross the desert.
Not since the passage of the Darda-
nelles by the British feet, during the
War has there been such
excitement in this city. On every street
corner groups of excited people discuss
and speculate as to the result of this new
disaster and the action of the Ministry
in the present emergency is eagerly
awaited. Many predict it will result in
the fall of Gladstone's government.
TWO THOUSAND MEN SLAUGHTERED AT
KHARToUM.
CAIRO, February Ga rumor has
reached here that two thousand men
were massacred at Khartoum. The |
news of the disaster has cast gloom |
over the entire European colony in Egypt |
,Se
LONDON, February 6.-Opinions differ |
as to the fate of General Gordon. |
He has always averred that he would |
never be taken alive, and those who !
know him best believe that he has been |
killed. Still it is known that the one |
point toward which Ell Mahdi has de-
voted his best energies during the past |
year has been the capture of Gordon
alive.
As long ago as August, 1884, Gordon
wrote his sister in London that she need |
have no fears for his personal safety, be.
cause he had a charm for his life which |
he would not explain to her beyond that |
It arose from his trust in the Almighty.
Other private letters received at about
the same time, and only now made pub.
lie, say that Ell Mahdi had ordered that
Ill his soldiers must shoot wide of Gen.
eral Gordon, and that any of his soldiers
that killed or even wounded the great ln-
idel should be punished with death.
The battlefield at Ell Obeid, where the |
army of Hicks Pasha was slaughtered is
,taked off with posts to show where va |
.ious officers met their fate, and Ell |
Mahdi has solemnly assured his followers
hat he would some day show them Cen
,raI Gordon chained to the post which
marks the spot where Hicks was killed.
But those who know General Gordon
believe that before he is chained to any |
,ost there will be many men killed, and
he will be among the number. The be-
ief among army officers is that ii the
ioht which resulted in the surrender OF
lhartoum occurred after mutinous up
Using of alive troops, General Gordon
S dead.
MUST DROP PARTY SPIRIT.
LONDON, February 6.-The Standard
avs that all party spirit must be drop
,ed, and one supreme, united effort be
made to save Gordon in crisis which
an only be compared to the beginning OF
he Indian mutiny.
The Savannah Coal Mine Explosions
DALLAS, TEX, February 5.-Omcials
If the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which
owns the coal mine at Savan-
lah, Indian Territory, where the recent
.as explosion occurred, have received q