The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-05
DIED UNDER THEIR FLAGS
DESPERATE COURAGE DISPLAY
ED BY DERVISHES
Graphic Story of the Battle Before
Omdurman Between the Mahdists
and the AnglO-Egyptians - En-
trance to the City Made with the
Black Flag OF the KhaIifa Flying
Over Sir Herbert Kitchener.

Over Sir Herbert Kitchener.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-The war Office
| has received the following dispatch
| from Gen. Kitchener, dated Saturday
evening:
THE remnant of the khalifa's force
has surrendered and now have q very
| large numbef"of prisoners on my hands.
Our cavalry and gunboats are still
! pursuing the khalifa and his chiefs,
who, with only about 100 fighting men,
| Is apparently making for Kordorfan."
OMDURMAN, Opposite Khartoum,
Nubia, Sept. 2 (by camel post to Naz-
| rD.-The sirdar Gen. Sir Herbert
| Kitchener, with the khalifa's black
standard, captured during the battle,
entered Omdurman, the capital of Nah
diam, at o'clock this afternoon, at
the head Of the Anglo-Dgyptian col
umn, after completely routing the Der
wishes and dealing q death blow to
Mahdism.
Roughly, our losses were 200. while
thousands Of the Dervishes were killed
or wounded.
Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army
encamped at Agaisa, eight miles from
Omdurman. The Dervishes were three
miles distant. At dawn today our cav
airy patrolling toward Omdurman,
discovered the enemy advancing to the
attack in battle array, chanting war
songs. Their front consisted of infan-
try and cavalry stretched out for three
or four miles. Countless banners fiut-
tered over their masses, and the cop
per and brass drums reSounded through
the ranks of the savage warriors, who
advanced unwaveringly with all their
oldtime ardor.
Our infantry formed up outside the
camp. On the left were the Lanca-
shire fusileers and the First battalion
Grenadier guards, with the Maxim
battery, manned by the Royal Irish
fusileers. In our center were the First
battalion, Warwickshire regiment, the
First battalion Cameron Highlanders
and the First battalion Lincolnshire
regiment, with Maxims worked by q
detachment Of the Royal artillery, un-
der Maj. Williams. On our right were
the Soudanese brigades, commanded
by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. Mcdonald.
The Egyptian brigades held the re-
serves, and both TANKS were supported
by the Maxim NOrdenfeldt batteries.
ARTILLERY OPENED FIRE.
At 1920 a. m. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and ad-
vanced steadily in enveloped form.
AT 7:S0 our artillery opened fire, which
was answered by the Dervish riflemen.
Their attack developed on 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 fierce at
tack. A large force of horsemen, trying
to face q continuous hail of bullets
from the Cameron Highlanders, the
Lincolnshire regiment and the Sou
danese, were literally swept away, lead
ing to the withdrawal OF the entire
body, whose dead streWed the field.
The bravery Of the Dervishes can
hardly be overestinrated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
a few hundred yards Of our fighting
line, while the mounted emirs abso-
lutely 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 towards
Omdurman. AS our troops surmounted
the crest adjoining the Nile, the Sou
de- ri OH iT1fn
tact with the enemy, who had reformed
under cover Of q rocky eminence and
had massed beneath the black stan
dard of the khalifa, in order to make
supreme effort to retrieve the for
tunes of the day. A mass, $1,000 strong,
bore down on the Soudanese.
Gen. Kitchener swung round the CEN
ter and left of the Soudanese and seiz-
ed the rock eminence, and the Egyp
tiarS, hitherto in reserve, joined the
firing line in ten minutes and before
the Dervishes could drive their attack
home, the flower of the khalifas army
was caught in depression and with
in zone of whitening cross fire from
three brigades with the attendant artil-
lery.
DESPERATE COURAGE.
The devoted Mahdists strove hero1cal-
ly to make Roadway, but every rush
was stopped while their main body was
literally mown down by a sustained
deadly fire.
Defantly the Dervisbes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
deep masses gradually melted to COM
panies and the companies to dribbles
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white
with Jibban-clad corpses.
At 11:15 the sirdar ordered an ad-
vance, and our whole force in line
drove the scattered remnant of the foe
| Into the desert, our cavalry cutting off
their retreat to Omdurman.
Among the chief incidents of the bat
| tie was a brilliant charge by the
| Twenty-first lancers, under Lieut.. Col
| Martin. Galloping down on a detached
| body Of the enemy they found the Der
wishes massed behind them and were
forced to charged against appalling
odds. The lancers rode throgh the
mass, rallied and kept the Dervish
horde at bay. Lieut.. Grenfell, nephew
| OF Gen. Sir Francis Grenfell, was kill
| ed. four other officers were wounded;
! twenty-one men were killed and twenty
wounded.
| The Egyptian cavalry were in close
| fighting throughout with the Baggar
| hcrsenen. For a short period the
enemy captured and held a gun, but