Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-09
Hoods Wills enre nausea, indigestion.
GORDON IS avenged.
THE MAHDISTS ARE CRUSHED
General Kitchener Captures Omdur-
man and the English Now Down
the Fanatical DerNishes by Thou
sands-The English Lose Two
Hundred Men.

Omdurman, Opposite Khartoum on the
Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2.-(By camel post 10
Massey THE sirdar, General Herbert
Kitchener with the khalifa black stand
ard captured during the battle, entered
0mdurman, the capital of Mahdiam, at
a o'clock this afternoon at the head Of
rhe Anglo Egyptian column, aIler COM
fpletely routing the Dervishes and dealing
a death blow TO Mahdiam.
Roughly, our losses were 200. while
i thousands of the Dervishes We're killed
and wounded. Last night the Anglo
Egyptian army encamped at Agatha, eight
were three miles distant. At, dawn, the
tcavalry 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
FAIRY, stretched out for three or tour 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
lfantry 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 sWarwickshire. First battalion
Cameron Highlanders and the First bat
talon WarwicNshre, First battalion
inns worked by detachment Of the royal
ARTILLERY under Major Williams, On our
right were the Soudanese brigades, coai-
handed by General Maxwell and General
Mcdonald. The Egyptian brigades held
the reserves and both TANKS were sup
ported by .4axim- Nordenfeld batteries.
AT 1870 II. III, the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
lsteadily in enveloping formation.
swept Down the Inside.
At TAO our artillery opened fire which
was answered by the Dervish ritlemen.
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 minutes
by all our line frustrated the attempt
land the Dervshes, baked, swept toward
Jour center, upon which they concentrated
la fierce attack.
A large force of holsemen, trying 20
face continuous hail OF bullets from the
cameron Highlanders, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the Soudanese, was literal
ly swept away, leading to the Withdrawal
OF the entire body, whose dead strewed
the field,
= Magnificent Rushes.
The bravery of the Dervishes can hard
lly be overstated. Those who carried the
flags struggled within hundred yards
OF our fighting line. When the Dervishe1
withdrew behind the ridge in front OF
their camp the whole force marched i'll
echeon battalions toward Omdurman.
: When our troops surmounted the crests
the Soudanese on the right came to at
| tack those who had reformed under the
: rocky eminence and had massed around
the black standard of the khalifa in Or
der 10 make Supleine eIoil " letileNe
, the fortunes of the day. A mass $4,000
: strong bore down on the Soudanese Gen
| eral Kitchener swung round the center
' and left of the Soudanese and seized the
rocky eminence and the Egyptians, hith,
erto in reserve joining the firing line. In
: 10 minutes and before the Dervishes could
drive their attack home, the flower of the
khalifa's army WAS caught in depression
and within a zone of whitening cross
: fire from three brigades, with the attend
: ant artillery The devoted mahdist:
. strove heroically to make Roadway, but
, every rush was stopped, while their main
= body was literally mown down by a.sns
i. tanned deadly cross-tire.
3 Died Around Their Standa rds.
Deiantly the Dervisnes planted theil
5 standards and died beside them. Theil
dense masses gradually melted to com
panies and the companies to driblets be
meath the leaden hail. Finally the!
a broke and fled, leaving the field white
with the jibbahclad corpses, which like
: snowdrift, dotted the spot.
a At ll:l5 the sirdar ordered an advance
: and our whole force in line drove thu
= scattered remnant of the foe into the des
: ert, our cavalry cutting of their retrea
to Omdurman.