Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-09-08
TAKING OF OMDURMAN
Kitchener Defeated Khalifa
After a Bloody Battle.
GALLANT CHARGE OF BRITISH
Mssssd Tribes Were Unable to with.
stand the whitening Fire of
Modern Ordnance.

Modern Ordnance.
Omdurman. Opposite Khartoum on
the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 9. Tho sirdar,
General Herbert Kitchener, with the
khalifa's black standard captured dur.
ing the battle, entered Omdurmarl, the
capital OF Mabdiam at O'Clock thit
afternoon, at the head Of the Anglo.
Egyptian column, after completely
routing the dervisbes and dealing d
death blow TO Mahdim. Roughly, our
losses were 200, while thousands OF the
deryishes were killed and wounded.
Last night the Anglo Egyptian army
encamped at Agaiza. eight miles from
0mdurman. The dervisles were three
miles distant At dawn today,
the cavalry patrolling toward Omdur-
man discovered the enemy advancing
to the attack in battle array, chanting
war songs. Their frcnt consisted OF in
fantry and cavalry. stretched ont for
three or four miles. Countless banners
fiuttered over their masses, and the
copper and brass drums resounded
through the ranks OF the savage war
riors, who advanced unsweryingly,
with all their old-time ardor. Our
infantry formed up outside the camp.
At 7:20 A. NJ. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp aud ad-
yanced steadily in cnveloping forna-
tion. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire,
which was answered by tho dervish
rifiemen. Their attack developed on
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 is minutes by all our
line frustrated the attempt, and tho
dervisbes. baked. swept toward our
center. upon which they concentrated
fierce attack.
A large force OF horsemen, trying to
face continuous hail Of bullets from
the Cameron IIigIilanders, the Lincoln
shire regiment and the Soudanese, was
literally swept away, leading to the
withdrawal of the entire body, whose
dead strewed the field.
The bravery of the dervishes can
hardly be oveIcstimated. Those who
carried the fiags struggled to within
100 yards OF our fighting line.
When the fleTvishes Withdrew behind
the ridge in front Of their camp, the
whole force marched in echelon Of hat
talions toward Omdurman.
AS our troops surmounted the crest
adjoining the Nile. the Soudanese on
our right came into contact with the
| Remick, who had reformed under cover
OF rocky emlnence. and had marched
beneath the black standard Of the kha-
liia in order TO make 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 Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence, and the
Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, Joined
the firing line in 10 minutes, and be-
fore the deTvishes could drive their at
tack home. The flower OF the khalifa's
army was caught in depression and
within zone of whitening oross-fire
from three brigades. with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Mahdis stroye
hefoically TO make headway. but every
rush was stopped, while their main
boiy was literally mown down by sus-
tanned cross-fire.
Defiantly the dervishes planted thoir
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to COM
panies, and the companies to driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white
with Jibbah-clad corpses. like snow
drift dotted spot.
At 1915 the sirdar ordered an ad-
vance and our whole force, in line,
drove the scattered remnants into the
desert 10 0mdurman.
Among the chief incidents OF the bat
tie was brilliant charge by the
Twenty first Lancers, under Lieutenant-
Colonel Martin. Galloping down on
detached body Of the enemy. they found
the deryish swordsmen massed behind,
and were forced to charge home against
appalling odds. The lanaers hacked
through the mass. rallied and kept the
dervish horde at bay. Lieutenant
Grenfelt, nephew OF General Sir Francis
Grenfelt. was killed, four other officers
were wounded, 81 men were killed and
20 wounded.
The Egyptian cavalry were In close
fighting throughout with tho Baggara
horsemen. For short period the
enemy captured and held gun, but II
was brilliantly retaken.
The heroic bravery OF tho dervishes
evoked universal admiration. Time
after time their dispersed and broken
forces reformed and hurled themselves
upon the Anglo Egyptians, their emirs
conspicuously leading and spurning
death. Even when wounded and in
death agonies. they raised themselves to
fire a last shot.
Among the wounded is Colonel
Rhodes, the correspondent of the Lon
don Times, and a brother Of Cecil
Rhodes.
Four Young womon Drowned.
Eric, Pa, Sept. By an acci-
dental jibing OF the sail OF the pleasure