The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-05
GREAT BR|T|SHV|cToR Ang|o-Egyptian Army Nearly AnnihiIates the Dervisb
 Forces.
TREMENDOUS LOSS OF LIFE

THOUSANDS OF DEAD DERVIsHES
 STREW THE FIELD.
 khalifa's Army Advanced Unwavering and With All Their Old Time Ardor- The Dervishes' Bravery Can Hardly be Overstated- Planted Their Standards and Died Beside Them Literally Swept Away by the Leaden IIatl-Remnant of the Army surrend- CTS to Kitchener-Death Blow to Mahdism.
 Omdurman, opposite Khartoum, on the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2, by camel post to Nasri.-The Sirdar, General Sir Her bert Kitchener, with the Khalifa s black standard, captured during the battle, entered Omdurman, the capital of Mahdism, at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the head of the Anglo Egyptian col umn after completely routing the Der wishes and dealing a death blow to Mahdism. Roughly, our losses were two hundred, while thousands of the Dervishes were killed or wounded.
 Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army camped at Agaiza, eight miles from Omdurman. The Dervishes were three miles distant. At dawn to-day our cav airy, patrolling toward Omdurman, dis covered the enemy advancing to the at- tack in battle array, singing war songs Their front consisted of infantry and cavalry, stretched out for three or four miles. Countless banners f1uttered over their masses and the copper and brass drums resounded through the serriad ranks of the cavage warriors who ad- vanced unwaveringly and with all their old-time ardor.
 In our center were the first battalion Warwickshire regiment, the first bat talion Cameron Highlanders and the first battalion Lincolnshire regiment, 2 with Maxins worked by a detachment of the Royal artillery under Major Will liams On cur right were the Soudan- ese brigades, commanded by General Maxwell and General Macdonald. The Egyptian brigades held the reserve, and both Hanks were supported by the Mayim- Nordenfelt batteries. At 7:2C a. m. the enemy crowded the ridges above the camp and advanced steadily in enveloping formation. At TAO our artillery opened fire, which was answer ed by the Dervish rif1emen.
 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 fifteen minutes by all arms in our line frustrated the attempt, and the Der wishes baked, and swept toward our center, upon which they made fierce attack. A large force of horsemen try ing to face continuous hail of bullets from the Cameron Highlanders, the Lincolnshire regiment and the Soudan- ese, were literally swept away, leading to the withdrawal of the entire body, whose dead strewed the field.
 The bravery of the Dervishes can hardly be overstated. Those who car ried the flag struggled to within few hundred yards of our fighting line while the mounted Emirs absolutely threw their lives away in bold charges. When the Dervishes withdrew behind the ridge in front of their camp the whole force marched toward Omdur- man. These troops surmounted the crest adjoining the Nile. The Soudan- ese, on our right, came into 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 su- preme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day. A mass It, 900 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 held in reserve joined the firing line in ten minutes and before the Dervishes could drive their attack home. The flower of the Kha- lifa's army was caught in depression and within a zone of whitening cross fire from three brigades, with the at tendant artillery. The devoted Nah dists strove heroically to make head way, but every rush was stopped, while their main body was literally mown down by sustained deadly cross-ire.
 Defiantly the Dervishes planted their standards and died beside them. Their dense masses gradually melted to con- 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 meadow. At 11:15 the Sir dar ordered an advance and our whole force in line drove the scattered rem- nant of the foe into the desert, our cavalry cutting off their retreat to Om- durman.
 Among the chief incidents of the bat +Ie was a brilliant charge of the Twen- tv-first I.ancers, under Lieutenant Col one1 Martin. Galloping down on de- tached body of the enemy, they found +he Dervish swordsmen 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. Lieutenant Grenfell. nephew of General Sir Fran. cis Grenfell, was killed. four other off cers were wounded, twenty-one mer were killed and twenty were wounded