The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

Omdurman Opposite Khartoum, on the
Nile, Nubia Sept. 2 Oby camel post to
NasrD.-The sirdar. General Herbert
Kitchener, with the khalifs black stand
ard, captured during the battle, entered
Omdurman. the capital of the Mahdi, at 4
O'Clock this afternoon at the head of the
Anglo-EgyptiaR column. after completely
I%utlng the Dervishes and dealing death
blow to the Mahdi.
Roughly, our losses were 200, while thou
SANDS Of the dervishes were killed and
wounded.
Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army en-
Samped at Agaiza, eight miles from ON
dufman. The DerVishes We're three miles
distant. AT dawn touay the CAVIAR pa
trolling toward OIndurman discovered the
enemy advancing TO the attack in battle
array, chanting war songs. Their front
consisted OF infantry and cavalry
Stretched out for three or four miles
countless banners futtered over their
masses and the copper ana brass drums
resounded through ths ranks OF the savage
warriors, VINO advanced answers glnsly
with all their oldtime ardor Our infantry
Horned up outside the camp. On the left
We're the first battalion OF Northumber-
land fuSileers. the second battalion Ian
caShire tuSileerS and the first battalion
grenadier guards, with the Maxim bat
terry, manned by the Royal Irish fusileers.
IN our counter were the first battalion
WarW1ckshlre regiment, the first batrlion
cameron HlghlanderS and the first bat
TALON Lincolnshire regiment with a Max
artillery under Major Williams. On our
right were the Soudanese Drigades COM
manGed by General Maxwell and General
MacDonald. The Egyptian brlgades held
the reserves and both han6s were sup
les.
ENEMYs ADVANCE.
At 7.2O a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges. above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation AT 1876
our artillery opened fire, which was an
Ia f-l arfflr l...f-
attack developed. on our left and in ac-
cordance with their traditional tactics
they swept down the hillside with the de-
sign OF rushing our tlanA. But the with
erinS ire maintained for 10 minutes by ali
our line frustrated the attempt and the
DerVlshes baked, swept toward our cen
ter, upon which they concentrated fierce
attack.
4 large force of horsemen. trying to face
i q CONTINUOUS hail OF bullets from the
A cameron Hlghlanders, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the SoGdanese, was liter
ally swept away. leading to the y.jth-
drawal of the entire body, whose lead
stGewed the field.
VALOR OF DERVISHES.
The bravery OF the Dervishes can hardly
be overstated. Those who carried the flags
struggled TO within a hundred yards OF
our nght!ng lines When the DerViShes
withdrew behind the ridge in front of
their camp. the Whole force marched in
echelon OF battalionS toward OmdUrmaH.
As eur troops surmOunted the crest ad-
-;OAlLlliS InG 4Nllc, the SOuuGHGSe on our
right came into contact with the rem
nant who had reformed under cover of
rocky eminence 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 of 10, coo
strong bore down on the Soudanese.
General Kitchener swung round the cen
ter and left of the Soudanese and seized
the rocky eminence and the Egyptians
hitherto in reserve, joined the firing line
in ten minutes. and before fhe DerVishes
COulQ QrlNe their attack home.
The flower of the khalifa's army was
caught in a depression and within a zone
OF withering crosS-fire from three brigades
with the attendant artillery. The devoted
Mahdists strove beroically to make head
way, but every rush was stopped while
their main body was literally mown down
by sustained deadly cross-1ire.
Defiantly the DerVishes 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
jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow drift
dotted spot.
At li:f5 the sirdar ordered an advance
and our whole force, in line drove the
scattered remnant of the foe into the
desert, our cavalry cutting off their re-
treat to Cmdurman.
INCIDENTS OF BATTLE
Among the chief incidents of the battle