Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-09-07
GORDON IS AVENGED.
The MAHDIsTs ARE CRUSHED.
General Kitchener Captures Omdur-
man and the English Now Down
the Fanatical Dervishes by Thou
sands-The English Lose Two
Hundred Men.

the Fanatical Dervishes by Thou
sands-The English Lose Two
Hundred Men.
0mdurman, Opposite Khartoum on the
Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2.-tBy camel post to
Massey THE sirdar, General Herbert
Kitchener with the khalifa black stand
ard captured during the battle, entered
Omdurman, the capital of Mahdiam, at
4 o'clock this afternoon at the head Of
the Anglo-Egyptian column, AFTER COM
pletely routing the Dervishes and dealing
a death blow to Mahdiam.
Roughly, our losses were 200. while
thousands of the Dervishes 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 the
cavalry patrolling toward Omdurman dis
covered the enemy advancing to the at
tack in battle array, chanting war songs.
Their front consisted of infantry and cav
airy, stretched out for three or four miles.
Countless banners futtered over their
masses and their copper and brass drums
resounded through the ranks of the saw
age warriors who advanced unswervingly
with all their old-time ardor. Our in
lfantry formed outside the camp. On the
left were the First battalion of North
cumberland fusileers, the Second battalion
Lancashire fusileers and the First bat
talon grenadier guards with the Maxim
battery, manned by the Royal Irish fusi-
'leers. In the center were the First bat
talon Warwickshire First battalion
Cameron Highlanders and the First bat
talon Warwic~shire, First battalion
inns worked by detachment of the royal
artillery under Major Williams. On our
right were the Soudanese brigades, con-
imanded by General Maxwell and General
Mcdonald. The Egyptian brigades held
the reserves and both TANKS were sup
ported by nlaxim- Nordenfeld batteries.
At 1920 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation.
Swept Down the l..iIside.
At TAO our artillery opened fire which
was answered by the Dervish rifemen.
Their attack developed on our left and
in accordance with their traditional tao
tics they swept down the hillside with
the design of rushing our flank. But the
whitening fire maintained for 10 minutes
by all our line frustrated the attempt
and the Dervishes, baked, swept toward
our center, upon which they concentrated
a fierce attack.
A large force of horsemen, trying 20
face a continuous hail of bullets from the
Cameron Highlanders, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the Soudanese, was literal
ly swept away, leading to the withdrawal
of the entire body, whose dead strewed
the field.
Magnificent Rushes.
The bravery Of the Dervishes can hard
ly be overstated. Those who carried the
flags struggled within hundred yards
of our fighting line. When the Dervishes
withdrew behind the ridge in front of
their camp the whole force marched in
echelon battalions toward Omdurman.
When our troops surmounted the crests,
the Soudanese on the right came to at
tack those who had reformed under the
rocky eminence and had massed around
the black standard of the khalifa in or
der to make a supreme effort to retrieve
the fortunes of the day. A mass $4,000
strong bore down on the Soudanese. Gen.
eral Kitchener swung round the center
and left of the Soudanese and seized the
rocky eminehce and the Egyptians, hith-
erto in reserve, joining the firing line. In
10, minutes and before the Dervishes could
drive their attack home, the flower of the
khalifa's army was caught in depression
and within zone of whitening cross
fire from three brigades, with the attend
ant artillery. The devoted mahdists
strove heroically to make Roadway, but
every rush was stopped, while their main
body was literally mown down by sus-
tanned deadly cross-fre.
Died Around Their Standards.
Defantly the Dervisnes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to COM
panies and the companies to driblets be-
meath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fed, leaving the field white
with the jibbah-clad corpses, which like
a snowdrift, dotted the spot.
At HIS the sirdar ordered an advance
and our whole force in line drove the
scattered remnant of the foe into the des-
ert, our cavalry cutting off their retreat
to Omdurman.