The Red Cloud chief., 1898-09-09

II VISITED hnartOum to-day.
''Thc town is a complete ruin, but
lower portions show some OF the prin-
cipal houses still standing. The pco-
pie are naturally delighted to see us.
$50 for as l can see at present,
Khartoum is the best position. Om-
durham Is very extensive and the
stencil there is unbearable.
~ AVE therefore moved the troops
down to Khor Slfambat, where we now
are in n good camp on the river. All
the British wounded will descend the
river with this dispatch. There are
no cases that cause grave anxiety"
Tho official list gives the number Of
British officers killed in the capture of
Omdurman Ms two, while thirteen were
wounded Of the men, twenty.threc
were killed and ninety-nine were
wounded. The loss sustained by the
Egyptians (thc English allies was:
officers, one killed, eight wounded;
men, twenty killed; Ell wounded.
OMpURMAN, ON THE NILE. Nubia.
Sept. 1.-The sirdar General Sir Her
bert Kitchener, with the khalifa's
black standard, captured during the
battle, entered Omdurmau. the capital
Of Mahdiam, at 4 o'clock this after
noon, at tho hoad Of the Anglo Egyp-
tian column. after completely routing
the dervishcs and dealing a death
blow to Mahdiam.
Roughly our losses were 200, while
thousands of tho dervishcs were killed
and wounded.
uh4 - A. IuA-. 1000.
hardly be ovcrcstimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
a few hundred yards of our fighting
line, while the mounted emirs abso-
lutcly threw their lives away in bold
charges.
When the dervishcs withdrew be-
hind the ridge In front of their camp
the whole force marched in echelon of
battalions toward Omdurman. AS our
troops ~surnounted the crest adjoining
the Nile, the Soudanese on our right
came in contact with the enemy, who
had reformed under cover Of a rocky
eminence and had massed beneath the
black standard of the khalifa in order
to make a supreme effort to retrieve
the fortunes of the day. A mass,
$1,000 strong bore down upon the
Soudancsc.
General Kitchener swung round the
center and left OF the S~oudanese 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.
..tck home.
s Hnuyar ~ tha lhn1tfata arprr
Was caught in a depression and within
' u zone of whitening crosstire from
three brigades from the attendant ar
tillcry. The devoted Mahdists strove
heroically to make Roadway, but every
rush was stopped, while their main
y body was literally mown down by a
sustained deadly crossfre.
c Defantly the dervishes planted Their
standards and died beside them. Their
: dense masses gradually melted to com
pauies and tho companies to driblet,
beneath the lsaden hail. Finally theJ
n broke and fed, leaving the field whit.
with jibbah-clad corpsss, like q snow
drift dotted meadow.
Caught In the Niagara Rapids.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. ", Sept. On,
3. Marvin Of Buffalo aud Constable
NaclSen of Lewiston were drowned in
u he Niagara river at Lewiston last
tight. The men were in q small skin
ind, despite warnings from the shore,
lowed up the river until they were
~ taught in the boiling water Of Mag
70 ,ra's rapids and their boat upset.
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