New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-07
STORY OF THE BATTLE.

Kha1ifa's Army. So ..*%
OMDuRMAN, Opposite Khartoum, NJ.
bia, Sept. 2. The sirdar, General Sir
Herbert Kitchener, with the khalifa's
black standard, captured during the
battle, entered Omdurman, the capital
of Mahdiam, at o'clock this afternoon
at the head Of thu Anglo. Egg ptian col.
umn, after completely routing the Der
wishes, and dealing a death blow to
Mahdism. Roughly, our losses were
were killed or wounded.
Last night the Anglo Egg ptian 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, g2
Chanting War Songs.
Their front consisted of infantry and
cavalry stretched out for three or four
miles. ,. .-- q.
At 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloped form. At 1880
our artillery opened fire, which was
answered by the Dervish rifemen.
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, main.
tanned for Is minutes by all our line,
frustrated the attempt; and the Der.
wishes baked, swept toward our cen.
ter, upon which they concentrated a
fierce attack. A large force Of horse
| men, trying to face continuous hail
of bullets from the Cameron High
landers, the Lincolnshire regiment and
the Soudenese
Were Literally Swept Away,
| leading to the withdrawal Of the entire
party, whose dead strewed the field.
The bravery of the Dervishes can
hardly be overestimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within q
few hundred yards Of our fighting line,
while the mounted emirs absolutely
threw their lives away in bold charges.
When the Dervishes Withdrew be.
hind the ridge in front Of their camp,
the whole force marched towards Om-
durham. As our troops surmounted
the crest adjoining the Nile, the Sou.
danese, on our right, came into con.
l tact with the enemy, who had reformed
under cover Of rocky eminenoe and
had massed beneath the black stan.
dard Of the khalfa, in order to make q
supreme effort to #.
/ Retrieve the Fortunes Of the Day.
A mass, $4,000 strong, bore down on
the Soudanese. General Kitchener
swung round the center and left Of the
i Soudanese and seized the rock emf
hence, and the Egyptians, hitherto in
reserve, joined the firing line in Il
minutes, and before the Dervishet
could drive their attack home, the
flower Of hekhahfa's army was caught
in depression and within zone Of
whitening cross fire from three bri,
Rades with the attendant artillery.
The devoted Mahdists strove heroic
ally to make Roadway, but every rusf
was stopped while their main body
was literally mown down by sus
tanned deadly fire. Defiantly the Der
& wishes planted their standards and
Died Beside Thorn.
Their deep masses gradually melted
to companies and the companies {,
dribbles beneath the leaden hail Final
II they broke and fed, leaving th
field white with Jibban.clad corpses.
At ll:l6 the sirdar ordered an ad
vance, and our whole force in lin
drove the scattered remnant Of the 70
into the desert, our cavalry cutting Of
their retreat to Omd
. Khalifa Abdul lah, with his harem, an
OsmaE Digna, his principal general
managed to escape, but Abdullah's ban
ner and hundreds Of prisoners are i
our hands. It is estimated that 10 90
Of the enemy were slain. Our tota
casualties were about 300
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