The age-herald., 1898-09-20

handling the transport, which somewhat retarded the advance of the brigades fol- lowing. Sharp to take advantage, the Der wishes seized this moment to throw their entire strength against our right once more. All our guns and Maxims that could be brought to bear, assisted by the gunboats, played upon the Dervishes, who, in some cases, were four and eight deep. The range was long, over 2,0O0 yards, but volleys were directed against them and it was plain that the Dervishes hated our infantry s fusillade. The Kahlifa's black flag, which had in the first advance been planted within 200 yards of our front, still waved aloft. A pile of stones had been heaped around it's tall bamboo staff, but with the exception of few of the enemy who were shamming death all had been killed or wounded. The staff and flag were ridd1ed with bullet holes, and fifty heaped up dead including the Khalifa's brother, Yacoub, lay there. One fanatic had leaned care- lessly against the staff, holding it by one hand, for some time, but he, like others fell pierced by many wounds For a few minutes it looked as if Macdonald's brigade must be broken before the mass of the enemy, who were doubling upon them
 Put In a summarized form, the following was the sequence of events:
 our guns and Maxims were brought to pear upon the enemy, and Wauchope and Lewis marched swiftly to help the en- vironed men. Handling this crack brigade with great skill, Macdonald wheeled. meet ing one after the other, the successive at- Jacks which were hurled against him. The bravest of the Dervishes fell within a few paces of his unbroken lines, and the only anxious moment of the day ended happily. Beyond doubt, all the chief honors of the seven hours fighting belonged to Macdon- aids brigade. When the Dervishes were broken against the steel front of the First khedival brigade, and Wauchopes ana other troops drew near, for the first time saw them deliberately turn, stop, and run from the field. Thereafter the cavalry and infantry pressed on towards Omdurman, the bulk of the enemy going out of range, away to the west With these men the Egyptian troopers and camelry dealt.
 During the further advance there was little shooting, a few stubborn Dervishes lying down or jumping up to take shots at us, and then, in some cases, craving for quarter. By D. m. the Srdar was at the outskirts of the vast dirty, mud-bailt city of Omdurman. There was yet little more firing while the army halted to get water and to have a meal, as the men had had nothing to eat since 4:90 a. m By p. m. it was known that communication had passed between the Sirdar and the chief natices, who were anxious to surrender, but that the Khalifa had entered his resi- dence and was preparing to fight. The Sir dar and staff rode forward into the vast labrynth of mud walls, lanes and houses, attended only by Maxwells brigade and battery. It was found that the great in- terior brick and stone wall erected around Abdullahrs quarters had been insufficient ly destroyed Guided by Slatin Pasha, whom many of the natives greeted, de- tour was made for the Khalifas house. Desultory firing from the Dervishes went on, but their troops pushed ahead, and the guns began knocking the house about, by accident, nearly causing the death of the Sirdar and staff.
 It was nightfall an entry was ef- fected and Neufeld was released, and the main body of our troops bivouacked just outside the city, which the Sudanese held during the night while the firing was still going on.