The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-10
A DECISIVE BATTLE.
Anglo Egyptian Army Captures
Mahdist Stronghold.
AnnihiIates Dervish Army and Drives
the Remnant Into the Desert
"A Fatal blow Dealt to
Mahdlsm.

London, Sept. 5.-The war Office has
received the following:
"Omdurman. Opposite Khartoum. On
the-Nile, Nubia. Sept. 2, by Camel Post to
| Nasri-The sirdar, Gen. Sir Herbert Kitch-
| ener, with the khalifa's black standard,
| captured during the battle entered Omdur-
man. the capital OF Mahdiam. at four
| O'Clock this afternoon at the head OF the
| Anglo-Egyptian column. after completely
routing the Dervishes and dealing death
| blow to mahdism. Roughly, our losses
were 200, while thousands OF the dervishes
were killed or wounded. Karl Neufeld was
| rescued unframed.
Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army
| encamped at Agatha, eight miles from Om-
| durham. The Dervishes were three miles
| distant. At dawn to-day our cavalry, pa
| trolling toward Omdurman, discovered the
| enemy advancing to the attack In battle
array, chanting war songs. Their front
consisted ofinfantry and cavalry, stretched
| out for three or four miles. Countless ba l.
ners nuttered over their masses, and the
copper and brass drums resounded through
the serried ranks OF the savage warriors,
who advanced unwaveringly. with all their
old-time ardor
"Our infantry formed up outside the
camp. On the left were the First battalion
northumberland fusileers. the Second bat
talon Lancashire fusieers and the First
battalion grenadier guards. with the Max
i'm battery, manned by the Royal Irish
fusileers. In our center were the First
battalion Warwickshire regiment the First
battalion Cameron highlanders and the
First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with
Maxims worked by detachment OF the
Royal artillery. under Maj. William. On
our right were the Soudanese brigades,
commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen Nc
Donald. The Egyptian brigadesN held the
reserves, and both TANKS were supported
by the Maxim-N ordenfeldt batteries.
AT 1920 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation. At 7:4O
our artillery opened fire. which was an
ewered by the Dervish rifiemen. Their at
tack developed on our left and In accord
ance with their traditional tactics 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. and the der
wishes baked and swept toward our CEN
ter, upon which they concentrated a fierce
attack. A large force OF horsemen, trying
20 face a continuous hail of bullets from
the Cameron highlanderS, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the Soudanese. was literally
swept away. leading to the withdrawal Of
the entire body, whose dead strewed the
field.
Among the chief incidents of the battle
was brilliant charge by the Twenty-first
lancers under Lieut.. Col. Martin. Gal
Looping down on "A detached body of the
enemy, they found the Dervish swords
men massed behind, and were forced to
charge home against appalling odds. The
lancers hacked through the mass, rallied
| and kept the Dervish horde at bay. Lieut..
Grenfell. nephew of Gen. Sir Francis
Grenfell. was killed: four other officers were
wounded, q men were killed and 20
wounded
"When the Dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp, the whole
force marched in echelon of battalions to-
ward Omdurmnn. AS our troops sur
mounted the crest adjoining the Nile. the
Soudanese on our right came into contact
| with the enemy, who had reformed under
cover of rocky emnence and had massed
beneath the black standard of the khalifa.
in order to make n supreme effort to re-
trieve the fortunes of the day. A mass
Is 900 strong, bore down on the Soudanese.
Gen Kitchener swung round the center
and left of the Soudanese and seized the
roaky emnence, and the Egyptians hith-
erto in reserve, Joined the firing line in ten
minutes and before the Dervishes could
drive their attack home.
1.-THE flower OF the khalifa's army was
caught In depression, and within a
zone of whitening cross fire from three
brigades with the attendant artillery.
The devoted mahdists strove heroically to
make Roadway. but every rush was
stopped, while their main body was lit
orally mown down by a sustained deadly
cross fire. Deiantly the Dervishes planted
their standards and died beside them.
Their dense masses gradually melted TO
companies and the companies TO driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white with
jibbah- clad corpses, like n snow-drift dot
ted meadows. At 1:15 the sirdar ordered
an advance, and, our whole force in line.
drove the scattered remnant of the foe into
the desert our cavalry cutting off their
retreat to Omdurman.
ba ber hraE of q
evoked universal admiration Time after
time their dispersed and broken forces
reformed and hurled themselves upon the
Ang lo- Egyptians. their cmirs conspicuous
ly leading and spurning death. Even when
wounded and In death agonies they raised
themselves to fire a last shot. Among the
wounded Is Col. Rhodes, the correspondent
of the London Times and brother OF Cecil
Rhodes"
Herr Karl Neuftl Id, who is referred
to in the foregoing dispatch from
Cairo as rescue unframed from the
Gervishes. fell into the hands of the
mahdi's followers in the neighborhood
Of Dongola, in the late spring or early
summer of 1887. He was the last Eu-
ropean male cap,re of Importance re-
naming IN TIE p. wer of the dervishes.
London, Sept. 5.-The war Office has
received the lOlIOWlnS ulspdlCH rum
Gen. Kitchener, dated Saturday even
ing: "The remnant OF the Khalifa's
force. has surrendered, and have now
very large number of prisoners on
my hands. Our cavalry and gunboats
are still pursuing the Khalfa and his
chiefs, who, with only about 140 fight
ing men, are apparently making for
Kordofan."
London. Sept. 5.--The war CORE
spondent of the Daily Telegraph with
the Anglo-Egyptian forces says:
"Khalifa Abdullah. with his harem,
and Osman Digna, his principal gen.
eral, managed TO escape, but Abdul
lah's banner and thousands of pris-
oners are in our hands. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 of the enemy were slain.
Our total casualties were about 500.
Mr. Howard, the New York Herald cor
respondent, was slain by shell in
Omdurman"