The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-10
GORDON IS AVENGED.
THE MAHDISTS ARE CRUSHED
man and the English Now Down
the Fanaticai Dervishes by Thou
sands-The English Lose Two
Hundred Men.

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Massey THE sirdar, General Herbert
Kitchener with the khalifa black stand
ard captured during the battle, entered
Omdurman, the capital OF Mahdiam, at
4 o'clock this afternoon at the head Of
the Anglo Egyptian column, aIIer COM
pletely routing the Dervishes and dealing
Il death blow to Aahdiam.
Roughly, our losses were 200. while
thousands of the Dervishes were killed
and wounded. Last night the Anglo
Egyptian army encamped at Agaiza, eight
mles from Omdurman. The Dervishes
were three miles distant. At dawn the
cavalry patrolling toward Omdurman dis
covered the enemy advancing to the at
tack in battle array, chanting war songs.
Their front consisted of infantry and cav
airy, stretched out for three or four miles.
Countless banners huttered over their
masses and their copper and brass drums
resounded through the ranks of the saw
age warriors who advanced unswervingly
with all their old-time ardor. Our in
fantry formed outside the camp. On the
left were the First battalion of North
cumberland fusileers, the Second battalion
Lancashire fusileers and the First bat
talon grenadier guards with the Maxim
battery, manned by the Royal Irish fusi-
leers. In the center were the First bat
TALON Warwickshire. First battalion
Cameron Highlanders and the First bat
TALON WarwicAshire, First battalion
inns worked by detachment of the royal
artillery under Major Williams. On our
right were the Soudanese brigades, con-
manded by General Maxwell and General
Mcdonald. The Egyptian brigades held
the reserves and both TANKS were sup
ported by maxim n ordenfeld batteries.
At 1920 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation.
Swept Down the Inside.
! At $40 our artillery opened fire which
was answered by the Dervish rifemen.
Their attack developed on our left and
in accordance with their traditional tao
: tics they swept down the hillside with
the design of rushing our flank. But the
. whitening fire maintained for 10 minute:
by all our line frustrated the attempt
o and the Dervishes, baked, swept toward
y our center, upon which they concentrated
r fierce attack.
4, A large force of horsemen, trying {
2 face a continuous hail of bullets from The
Cameron Highlanders, the Lincolnshire
=, regiment and the SOudanese, was literal
h ly swept away, leading to the Withdrawal
] of the entire body, whose dead strewe'
4 the field.
Magnificent Rushes.
n The bravery of the Dervishes can hard
o ly be overstated. Those who carried tn
. flags struggled within a hundred yard
:, of our fighting line. When the Dervishe
i withdrew behind the ridge in front o
their camp the whole force marched il
echelon battalions toward Omdurman.
4 When our troops'surmounted the crests
! the Soudanese on the right came to at
~ tack those who had reformed under tn
-, rocky eminence and had massed aroun,
. the black standard of the khalifa in OF
der to make a supreme effort to retriev
the fortunes of the day. A mass 1900
strong bore down on the Soudanese. Gen
4 eral Kitchener swung round the cente
-, and left of the Soudanese and seized tn
$ rocky eminence and the Egyptians, hith
# erto in reserve, joining the firing line. i
= 10 minutes and before the Dervishes coul
/. drive their attack home, the flower of tn
khalifa's army was caught in depressiO
% and within a zone of whitening cross
&c fire from three brigades, with the attend
70 ant artillery. The devoted mahdist
strove heroically to make Roadway, bu
II every rush was stopped while their mai
l. body was literally moWn down by su;
70 tanned deadly cross-fire.
!. Died Around Their Standards.
.s Defantly the Dervisnes planted thei
u, standards and died beside them. Thei
d dense masses gradually melted to con
panies and the companies to driblets b'
meath the leaden hail. Finally the
broke and fled, leaving the field whit
of with the jibbah-clad corpses, which liz
IL snowdrift, dotted the spot.
le At ll:l5 the sirdar ordered an advanC
Of and our whole force in line drove til
" scattered remnant of the foe into the de
TT ert, our cavalry cutting off their retres
ne to Omdurman.
n None Drawer Than English.
r. Among the chief incidents of the ba
nj tie was a brilliant charge by the Twent.
H. first lancers, under Lieutenant Colon
Martin. Galloping down on detache
body of the enemy they found the De
wish swordsmen massed behind and we
e- forced to charge home against great odd