The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

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 Han
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, patrollng
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 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 envelOped form.
At 7:30 our artillery opened fire, which
was answered by the dervish rifiemen.
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 lire fruS-
tratod the attempt, and the dervisheS
baked, swept toward OCr center, upon
which they concentrated fierce at
tack. A large force of hOrSemen, try
ing to face q 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
bravery of the deTvishes 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 Supreme Effort.
When the dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp the
whole force marched in echel0n battal-
ions 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 rocky
emirence, and had uassed beneath the
black standard Of the khalifa in order
to make q supreme effeOrt to retrieve
the fortunes of the day. A mass 49,
OO0 strong bore down on the SOudan-
eSc 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 Tower of the khalifa's
army was caut in depression and
within q zone of whitening crOSS-fre
from three brigades with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Mahdists strOve
herocally to make Roadway, but every
rush was stopped, while their main
body was
Literally Movvn 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 Ills the srdar or
dered an advance and our whole force
in line drove the scattered remnant of
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 and spurning 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, and a brother of Cecil
Rhodes.
Large Number of Prisoners.
London, Sept. 6.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from
Gen. Kitchener: The remnants of
the khalifa's force has surrendered and
l now have a very large number of
prisoners on my hands. Our cavalry
ard gunboats are still pursuing the
khalifa and his chiefs, who, with only
about 100 fighting men, are apparently
making for KordOrfan.'