Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-07
DESBRET EVENING NEWS.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
SCENES ON TIE FIELD WHERE
ARAB rAsHA WAS KNOCKED q
OUT.


The men bad been suffering so fear
fully from thirt before they reached
the canal, that | saw some Of them
drinking the blood that rau out Of
wounded camels, says Arthur V.
Palmer, late sergeant Seventy-ninth
Highlanders, in Auteteenth Ceatuy1.
When We had drunk our fill Of canal
watI r, the assembly" WAS sOunlei
and the roll was called, when many
a poor fellow hal 10 be marked as
"absent." Men told one another OF
their adventures, narrated their ss-
cap, :, and had time now TO examine
their b re legs, from which much
SKIN had been lost in falling into and
clamberiug out OF the trenches. Th-
most remarkable escape | remember
was that Of n color sergeant WIN
was looking at the enemy through. a
Uinccular when a bullet came
along, shivered the glass, and
then dropped spent into his mouth,
from which he spat IL with the loss
only of n couple of teeth. Some Of
US were detailed 10 search the
Egyptian camp TO make sure that
nOne of the enemy remained Turk
ing in il. a guard was set On
Arabi's tent, through which | had
fassed in advan,e, and hau
snaiched a cutlCt from the table,
little voting 10 whom tent anu food
mad belonged. / had the luck TO
chanceour a small shed full of mel
ons, nuts, bottles Of eau de cologne,
tins Of Turkish tobacco, and boxes
of cigs rettes. filled my water
bottles with eau de cologne. my
haversack with cigarettes, and with
A tin Of tobacco, anu n bottle OF eau
de cologne in my hand went in
scare Of my captain. He was not
10 be found in the tent Of which the
officers haI taken POSSESSION and /
handed the eau lie cologne bottle to
A major, an lrisbnfan, who swal-
lowed the contents neat at n gUlp
and then exclaimed: Holy Moses,
ISN'T that good stufi,'' 10 the great
amusement OF the other off,
GERS. Presently l met my captain,
10 whom / gave the cigarettes,
aud showed him where he could
get all he wanted OF lemops, tohac-
20 and eau lie cologne. He gave
me a sovereign for my trouble.
Volunteers were now called for TO
90 and assist the wounded. / made
one OF the party; and started well
equipped, with pipe in mouth, a
haversack full OF cigarettes, "A water
OOttlc full u EAU de cologne, and
plenty Of water The signs OF the
0attlef field were grCesUme, now one
looked at them in cold blood. The
artillery had wrought fearful havoc.
remember one heap Of twenty
four Corlses, some blown absolutely
INTO fragments, CtheIs headless,
ythers with Limits Topped of. Some
VI the dead Egyptians were roasting
slowly as they lay; their clothing
had teen ign:ted and was still
.moldering. 4 man Of the rifles
came along, drew his pipe from his
,ocket, and lit IL ut Gns % these
iodies. renlarking somewhat brut-
ally it struck me: ''By-, l never
thought should live to Use a dead
Egyptian for light to my pipei"
Ia the outer trench our dead and
wounded lay more thickly than
hose of the enemy but in
the inner trenches and on the spaces
between. for one man Of ours there
were certainly ten Egyptians. In
.he TedOubts the black gunners lay
lead or wounded, almost TO = man,
Tor they had been fastened TO the
guns and to one another by smn u
chains attached TO ankle fetters, 80
rs to leave them free to work tin
guns, but hindering them from nm
ning away. Among them 10 ,
Lieut.. Rawson lay mOrtally wOun,i-
Ell: IL seemed bitter lard, after his
fin- service in guiding the army,
that lac who hal contributed 20
much to the victory shCuli l'c dy-
ing In the hour of triumph. When
Sir Archibald Alison was told Of his
being wounded he at once went l.
see him. ''D:dn't l lead them
straight, siI:" were the dying mans
last faint wOrds-faithful unto duty
even To the enGe
The first wounded mar | attended
TO was az Egyptian, whose means
we're p.tsous, and on examination |
found him severely wounded in the
belly. ! poured some eau &c cologne
down his throat aud used my su'gi-
cal bandage 10 bind up the wound.
% as 10 keep the ilies from Il. Then
[ lit a cigarette, put it in his N U;lb.
placed more beside him, and gave
MIN n drink o. water. He kiSSe-
nv hand and muttered something
about UAllah." | had not left him
far when heard the crack OF 4 I'll
and a bullet whizzed by my eur.
Looking around / saw the smoke 81
the shot drifting away ffom where
my wounded man lay, and noticed
that he was quietly taking aim at
me again. He had time to fire n
second shot, which also missed NE,
before | reached him, and / had no
conjunction in driving the life out
If him with my bayonet, remarking
TO myself as took the weapon out
Of him for the last time, "Y on won't
come That game any more, you I'M
grateful brutel" Many such in
stances Of this treacherous hate &C.
CURED. | myself had to wipe out
four more wounded Egyptians
whom caught in the act OF firing
at our men after they had passed.
To run the 0ayonet into n man who
is down, one feels to be hardly the
thing, and II was done reluctantly,
tut in such cases rs have described
it was a clear act Of compulsory
duty.-Er.