The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-09-08
ARMY or OERvISHES BADLY DEFEATED
Anglo Egyptian Troops Utterly Annihilate
Them.-Fanstcs Compelled to Give
WAY bY Discipline.


Omdurman. opposite Khartoum
on the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2 (by camel
post to Nasri).-The sirdar, General
Sir Hererbt Kitchener, with the
Khalifs's black standard, captured
during the battle, entered Omdur.
man, the capital of Mshdiam, at
o'clock this afternoon, at the head
OF the Anglo-Egyptian column, after
completely routing the dervishes
and dealing a death blow to Nah
diam. Roughly our losses were 200,
while thousands of the dervishta
were killed and wounded.
Last night the Anglo-Egyptian
army encamped at Agatha, eight
miles from Omdurman. The
dervishes were three miles distant
At dawn to day our cavalry.
patrollipg toward Omdurman, dis
covered the enemy advancing to the
attack in battle array, chanting war
eongs. Their front consisted of
infantry aud cavalry, stretched out
for three or four miles. Countless
banners fiuttersd over their masses,
and the copper and brass drums
resounded through the serried ranks
OF the savage warriors, who advanced
unwaveringly with all their old time
ardor
Our infantry formed up outside
the camp. On the left were the first
battalion Northumberland fusileers,
the second battalion Lancashire
fusileers and the first battalion
grenadier guards, with the Maxim
battery, manned by the royal Irish
fusileers. Ia our center were the first
battalion Warwickshire regiment,the
first battalion Cameron Highlanders
and the first battalion Lincolnshire
regiment with Maxims worked by
detachment OF the royal artillery,
under Major Williams. On our right
were the SoudaDez brigades, com
manded by General Maxwell aud
General Macdonald. The Egyptian
brig AIDES held the reserves, and both
tanks were supported by the Max
im-Nordenfelt batteries.
ForWAED IN FACE OF LEADES HAIL
At Z a. IN. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation. At
TAO our artillery opened fire, which
was answered by the Dervish
rihemen.
Their attack developed on our left,
and in accordance with their tradi-
tional tactics, they swept down the
hillside with the design Of rushing
our flank. But the whitening fire |
maintained for fifteen minutes by all |
our line frustrated the attempt, and |
the Dergishss baked, swept toward |
our center, upon which they concen
trsted fierce attack. A large force /
of horsemen, trying to fase a con-
tinuous hail of bullets from the
Cameron highlauders, the Lincoln
shire regiment and the Soudanese
were literally swept away, leading
to the withdrawal of the entire
body, whose dead strewed the field.
Those who carried the flags strug
gled to within few hundred wards
of our fighting line, while the
mounted Emirs absolutely threw
their lives away in bold charges.
When The Dervishes withdrew
behind the ridge in front of their
camp the whole force marched in
echelon of bsttalions toward Omdur
man. As our troops surmounted
the crest adjoining the Nile, the
on our right came into
contact with the enemy, who had
reformed under coYer Of q rocky
enioeuce and had massed beneath
the black star dard Of the Khalifa in
order to make a supreme effort TO
retrieve the fortunes of the day. A
mass, $1,000 strong, bore down On
the Soudauese.
General kitchner swung round
th%center and left the Soudanese
and seized the rocky emineuce, and
the Egyptians, hitherto in reserve