Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-09-08
ere Killed and wounded,

omuufman, Opposite Khartum. Oh
the Nile, Nubia, Sept. ., 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 4 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
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 to-day our cavalry, patrolllng
toward Omdurman, discovered the en-
envy advancing to the attack in battle
array, chanting war songs. Their
front consisted of infantry AID cav
airy stretched out for three or four
miles. Countless banners fiuttered
over their masses and the copper aud
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 7:20 a m. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and adj
vanced steadily in developed form.
At T:30 our artillery opened fire, which
was answered by the dervish rif1emen.
Their 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
balked, swept toward our center, upon
which they concentrated 4 fierce at
tack. A large force of horsemen. try
ing to face a continuous hail of bullets
from the Cameron H~ighlanders, the
Lincolnshire regiment and the Soudan
| ese was literally swept away. leading
TO the withdrawal of the entire body,
whose dead Strewed the field. The
bravery of the derv:shes can hardly he
! overstated. Those who carried the
flags struggled to within a few nun
dred yards OF our fighting line, while
the mounted emirs absolutely threw
their lives away in bold charges.
Reformed for n Supreme Effort
When the dervisheS withdrew behind
| the ridge In front of their camp the
whole force marched in echelon battal-
ions toward Omdurman. AS our
troops surmounted the crest adjoining
the Nile the Soudanese on our right
came into contact with the enemy, VINO
! had reformed under cover of a rocky
! emirehce, and had maSsed beneath the
| black standard Of the khalifa in order
to make n supreme effeOrt 10 retrieve
the fortunes of the day. A mass l5,-
| 600 strong bore down on the Soudan-
csc Gen, Kitchener swung round the
center and left of the Soudanese n
seized the rocky eminence, and the
Epyptians. hitherto in reserve, joined
| the firing line in ten minutes, n be-
fore the dervishes could drive their at
tack home the Tower of the khailia >
army was caut in q depression II
within n zone of whitening cross-hre
! from three brigadeS with the
artillery The devoted MahdistS stroVe
beroicallv TO make Roadway, but every
rush was stopped, while their main
body was
Literally Mown Down
he a sustained deadly fire. Defantly
the Dervishes planted their stahoarus
aud died beside them. Their deep
masses gradually melted TO companies
and the companies TO dribbies Deneatn
the leaden hail. Finally they proke
| and fed, leaving the field whlte WIN
~ubban-clad corpses, like a snow drlrt-
| dotted meadow. At 11:15 the sirdar or
derad an advance and our whole force
an limo drove the scattered remnant or
tbs foe TO Omdurman. The heroic
bravery OF the d%ervishes evoked n
versaI admiration. Time after ume
their dispersed and broken forces re-
formed and hurled themselves upon
| the Anglo Egyptians, their emirs con-
sn~,cuously leading and spurning DEAN
/ Even when wounded and In death
agonies they raised themselves TO nre
) last shot. Among the Is
| Col Rhodes the correspondent or the
T ondon Times, and a brother OF Ceeii
Rhodes.
I.rxe Number of Prisoners.
rondon Sept. 6.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from
Con kitchener: THE remnants or
the khelifa's force has surrendered-an a
7 now have a very large number OF
prisoners on my hands. Our cavalry
Pa are still pursuing the
rhaIifa and his chiefs, who, with oniy
] ahont q fighting men, are apparently
making for Kordorfan."
sbut ont of Memphis.