The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-05


tho fiyof, Col. liuIlOlgh Is among thosH
slightly hurt.
nARHAntAs BArTLH,
should make an effort ~ establish hlln
self ~ some point On tho Nile between
Metomneh and Khattoum. At Io'oloek
ON the morning NJ tho 10Th, when the
British line was only league from the
river, tho enemy appeared In force some
distance la 'front.'. a halt
wa wa, 'G,sronpon made s,lor. Tor s o.SsS,
established here, Tho enemy opened
NOws has been received at Suaklmo
Il battle near TTinkital, between force
Of Bonlameers, a friendly tribe oi Arabs
and the rebels. in which the Beniamoers
badly defeated the rebels and captured
pll their cattle.
THE nATrLE or THE EiNETEEsriL
The point whore tho battle Of the 18th
occurred IL in the desert, about five
miles south from Motemneh. When
Gen. Stewart reached that point he
found the enemy lowering about
his little army ON all sides, ana
skirling IL, often within uncOmtOrlahly
short range. The rebels had evidently
stationed themselves In the vicinity 10
await the arrival, and 10 give battle.
when they
REGAIN TO SURROUND HIN,
he determined TO abide the event. lilo
ordered his men 10 dismount and form
a Zareba. This was made mainly with
saddles aud baggage, and during the con-
| struction tho rebel TiilGmen drew
nearer and maintained a hot fire from
behind ambush aud such hiding places
rs they could find among high grass:
| Their lire was very well directed, ana
was most disastrous in its effect upon
the British troops. Twelve men were
soon shot dead aud forty others stricken
| down with ugly wounds. Among the
| first killed were Mr.. Cameron, special
correspondent OF the London
Standard, and Mr.. Herbert,
special correspondent of the
London Post. Gen. stewart was ono
OF the very first 10 be wounded. lie
was shot in tho thigh. When no was
shot, the work of making the zareba
was about completed and the army had
been put in motion to form its battle
array. This was a hollow square. Tho
square was formed in the following
order:
THE HOLLOW SQUARE.
In the front, the naval brigade and
the Grenadier Guards.
on tho right flank, the Coldstream
| guards aud the Scots guards.
On the left flank, the mounted in
| fantry, and i'll the rear the Sussex ragi-
ment and the heavy camel corps.
| As soon as ii was completed the
square advanced under an ambush iire
| for a distance of two miles. AT this
point the enemy began TO move upon
the square in two large eche,ons.
These were directed against
stood unmoved. During the rebel
charge the English troops forming were
assailed in front and delivered ~ terrific
| fire aimed right at the enemy's middle,
moving down the men in such heaps
that they formed actual obstacles and
interiered so seriously with the even
ness necessary to the success of the on
slaugbt that its center line was brought
| to a standstill about sixty yards from
the British front line. The force of the
general movement was then unimpeded.
! Part of the line was like the ends of
broken timber around the corners of the
| square, and the rebels so displaced we've
! SIMPLY CUT TO PIECES.
| From this on the warfare was as dis
astrOus to the rebels as irregular on
their side. When the enemy's line was
broken the Arabs seemed TO break mp
into bands, each of which waged war
on its own account. The large detach-
ment, mostly on horseback, went back
to attack the zareba. This was garri-
soned by body of English soldiers,
made up of little detachment
left behind by each corps which had
gone forward in the square. Lord
! Charles Berestord was in command. He
sustained the attack for two hours, when
the enemy was compelled 10 retreat.
During the general attack upon the
square only six men were killed ana
| tWenty-six wounded on the English
side. Capt. Norton worked the guns
during this fight, and his
firing did awful execution.
Gen. Stewards force, on leaving
Gakdul well, consisted of 1000 picked
fighting men. The latest dispatches re-
ceived at the war offices show that Lord
Lieut.. Vincent was not, as first reported,
killed in the battle fought in the desert
on the 10Th instant. He died from a
wound received on the 18th at Abu klea.
Only two British officers were killed in
the zareba fight. The others killed were
non-commissioned officers and privates.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE sKIRMfsHING.
During the advance of the main body
of the English from the tarabe, the gar
rison left behind at that point kept up
heavy fire from their guns. An effort
was made to erect a redoubt
some fifty yards to tho
right of the tarabe, under
the protection of steady fire from the
zareba. During the erection of the re-
doubt one man was killed and three
men from the Life Guards, land the SCOTS
Crews, held the redoubt and maintained
a heavy fire throughout the battle.
They did much TO repel the constant rush
of the enemy. The loss of the rebels
during the day is estimated at 200 killed
and wounded. Among the enemy
were
MANY SLAVES,
several of whom have submitted to the
British. They say Ell Mahdi sent them
from Khartoum. The square
REACHED THE NILE
at sunset on Monday evening, and en-
camped for the night. Early Tuesday
morning scouting parties made a recon-
noissance, and destroyed some
empty villages. The inhabitants
had watched the military
operations from distance and after
wards retreated to Metemneh. The
British then advanced through a vii
lage around Metemneh and on Wednes-
day they made reconnaissance
and found Metemneh fairly well
fortified. Shots were exchanged,
bat the rebels kept. out of
sight. The ground around is sandy,
with depressions full of grass and
bushes, atfording good cover. Prison
ers state that the enemy came from
Khartoum, and that the force which at
LdCh6u Illt hpu AhAO~ w 90 WIZ
advance guard.
ANXIETY ABOUT STEWART.
There is intense anxiety as to the ma
ture of Gen. Stewards wounds, and the
prospects of his recovery. There was
report this afternoon to the effect that
he had been killed and that the
war office had withheld the information
to that effect. This report is re-
futed tonight by the fact that
the Queen sent dispatch to
the war office, in which she
expressed personal sympathy with Gen.
Stewart and thanks him for his
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