Arizona republican., 1898-10-10
MAHDISM'S LAST AND GREATEST DAY.
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ped men. The zariba behind which they were unwisely posted obliged them to stand, besides hampering them both in fire and when it came to move ment: little clump of enemy gathered in hole in front of them, and by the time guns came up to shell them out the Camerons had lost some twenty five, and the Seaforths above a dozen. 1 SLAUGHTER OF DERvISHES. But loss on xhis scale was not to be considered beside the awful slaughter of the dervishes. If they still came on our men needed only time and ammu- hilton and strength to point a rife to kill them off to the very last man. iOnly by now-sman wonder-they were not coming on. They were not driven back; they were killed in coming on. One section of fire after another hush- ed, and by o'clock the village and the plain were still again. The last shell had burst over the last visible group Of dervishes; now there was nothing but the unbending, grimly expectank line before Agaiga and the still carpet of white in front.
 We waited half an hour or so, and then the sudden bugle called us to our feet. Advance it cried, to Omdur- man!' added we. Slowly the force broke up and expanded. The evident intention was to march in brigades in echelon-the Second British leading along the river, the First British on their right rear, then MaxwelPs, Lew is's and Macdonalds s, with Collinson's still supporting. Lewis and MacdOn- aid had changed places, the latter being now outermost and rearmost; at the time few noticed that The moment the dervish attack had died down the Twenty first Lancers had slipped out, and pushed straight for the Kahlifa's capital.
 STREWN WITH DEAD. l Movement was slow, since the lead ing brigades had to wait till the others had gone far enough inland to take their positions. We passed over a cor ner of the field of fire, and saw for cer- tain what awful slaughter we had done. The bodies were not in heaps, bodies hardly ever are. but they spread evenly over acres and acres. And it was very remarkable, if you remembered the Atbara, that you saw hardly black. Nearly all the dead had the high forehead and taper cheeks of the AraD. The Baggara had been met at last, and he was worth meeting. Soma lay very cOmposedly, with their slip pers placed under their heads for Q last pillow. Some knelt, cut short in ehe middle of a last prayer. Others were torn to pieces, vermillion blood already drying on brown skin, killed instantly, beyond doubt. Others. again seeming ly as dead as these, sprang up as we approached, and rushed savagely, hurl- ing their spears at the nearest enemy. :. They were bayoneted or shot. Once again the plain seemed empty but for the advancing masses and the carpet of reddened white and broken bodies un- derfOOt
 ANNOUNCEMENTS OR GHOSTS? 'It was now twenty. minutes to 10. l The British had crested low ridge between Gsbel Surgham and the Nile. Maxwells brigade was just ascending 1 1t, Lewis's just coming up under the hill. Men who could go where they liked were up with the British, staring hungrily at Omdurman. Suddenly from rearward broke out a heavy crackle of fire. We thought perhaps a dozen men or so had been shamming dead; we went on staring at Omdurman. But next instant we had to turn and gall loped hot-heeled back again. For the
 
 crashing waxed to roar. Dervishes were firing at us from the top of Gebel Surgham, dervishes were firing behind and to the right of it. The Thirteenth Soudanese were bounding up the hill, Lewis's brigade was hastily faced to it's right westward, and was volleying for life. Macdonald's, beyond, still facing northward, was a sheet of flashes and roll of smoke. What was it? Had they come to life again? No time to ask; endorsements or ghosts, they were on us, and the battle was be- gun all again.
 "To understand, you must hear now what we only heard afterward. The dervish army. it appeared, had not re- turned to Omdurman on the night of the first, but had bivouacked-40,0 900 to 5O, ,000 Of them-behind Gebel SurTham. southwsstward from Agaiga. Tho khalifa had doubtless expected sud- den attack at daybreak, as at. Firket, at Abu Hamed, on the Atbara; as we marched by night to our positions be- fore Omdurman, he must have designed to spring upon our right flank. When
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