The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-08

omdurman, Opposite Khartum, on
the Nile, Nubia, Sept, 2, by Camel Post
TO Nazri--The sirdar, Gen. Sir Herbert
Kitchener, with the khalifa's black
standard, captured during the battle,
entered Omdurman, the capital of Hah-
diam, at o'clock this afternoon at
the head Of the Anglo-Egyptian col
umn, after completely routing the der
wishes and dealing a death blow to
Mahdam. Roughly our losses were
2OO, while thousands of the dervishes
We're killed or wounded. Last night
the lo-Egyptian army encamped at
Agaisa, eight miles from Omdurman.
The dervishes were three miles distant.
AZ dawn to-day our cavalry, patrolling
toward Omdurman, discovered the en-
envy advancing to the attack 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 the copper and
BRASS drums resounded through the
/ serted ranks Of the savage warriors,
who advanced unwaveringly, with all
Their Old Time Ardor.
Our infantry formed up outside the
camp. At 1920 a. m. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and ad-
vanced steadily in developed. form.
At 7:30 our artillery opened fire, which
was answered by the dervish rifemen.
Ihelr attack developed to our left, and,
in accordance with their traditional
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 frus-
trated the attempt, and the dervishes
baked, swept toward our center, upon
which they concentrated a fierce at
tack. A large force of horsemen, try
Ing to face a continuous hail of bullets
from the Cameron Highlanders. the
Lincolnshire regiment and the Soudan-
csc was, literally swept away, leading
!. to the withdrawal of the entire body,
whose dead strewed the field. The
braverysof the; derv;shes can hardly. be
overstated. Those who carried the
! flags struggled to within a few hun
dred yards of our fighting line, while
the mounted emirs absolutely threw
their lives away in bold charges.
Reformed for a Supreme Effort.
When the dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp the
whole force marched in echelon battal-
lions toward Omdurman. AS our
troops surmounted the crest adjoining
the Nile the, Soudanese on our right
came into contact with the enemy, who
had reformed under cover Of a rocky
emirence, and had massed beneath the
black standard of the khalifa in order
to make supreme effort to retrieve
the fortunes of the day. A mass 15,-i
600 strong bore down on the Soudan-
csc. Gen. Kitchener swung round the
center and left Of the Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence, and the
Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined
the firing line in ten minutes, and be-
fore the dervishes could drive their at
tack home the fower of the khalifa's
army was caut in depression and
within a zone Of whitening cross-fre
from three brigades with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Mahdists strove
heroically to make Roadway. but every
rush was stopped, while their main
4 body was ~ g.
f. Literally Mown Down =
by a sustained deadly fire Defantly
the Dervishes planted their standards
and died beside them. Their deep
masses gradually melted to companies,
and the companies to dribbles beneath
the leaden hail. Finally they broke
and fed, leaving the field white with
jibban-clad corpses, like a snow drift
dotted meadow. At 11:15 the sirdar Or
dered an advance and our whole force
in line drove the scattered remnant Of
3 the foe to Omdurman. The heroic
bravery Of the dervishes evoked uni
versal admiration. Time after time
their dispersed and broken forces re-
formed and hurled themselves upon
the Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs con-
spicuously leading andsspurning death.
Even when wounded and in death
agonies they raised themselves to fire
a last shot. Among the wounded is
Col. Rhodes the correspondent of the
London Times, ard a brother Of Cecil
Rhodes. Fl.
Large Number Of Prisoners.
london, Sept. 6.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from
Cen Kitchener: "The remnants Of
the khallfa.S force has surrendered and
now have a very large number Of
prisoners ION my hands. Our cavalry
and gunboats are still pursuing the
khalifa and his chiefs, who, with only
about 100 fighting men, are apparently
making for Kordorfan.
Shut Out of Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 6-The Mem
phis board of health has established a
rigid quarantine against the entire
country. No one will be allowed to
enter the city from airy direction. This
action was taken on account Of preya-.
lence Of yellow fever in Mississippi.