The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-09-08
DERVISH LOSS VERY HEAVY

Estimated That Ten Thousand of the
Kha1 fa's Men Were Slain.
OMDURMAN, Opposite Khartoum, NJ
bia, Sept. 2.-The sirdar, General Sir
Herbert Kitchener, with the khalifa's
black standard, captured during the
battle, entered Omdurman, the capital
Of Mahdiam, at o'clock this afterno con
at the head of the Anglo. Egg ptian col
umn, after completely routing the Der
wishes, and dealing death blow to
Mahdism. Roughly, our losses were
200, while thousands of the Dervishes
were killed or wounded.
Last night the Anglo Egg ptian army
enuamped at A4aIsa, eight mics from
Omdurmen. The Dervisnes were three
miles distant AT dawn today our cav
airy, pairolling toward Omduvman,
discovered The enemy advancing to the
attack Ia battle array,
Chanting War Songs.
Their front consisted of infantry and
cavalry stretched out for three or four
miles.
AT 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily IN enveloped form. At 7:3J
our artillery opened fire, which was
answered by the Dervish riflemen.
Their attack developed on our LETT;
and, in accordance with their tradl-
tonal tactlcs, they swept down the
hillside, with the design of rushing our
flank. But the whitening fire, main.
tanned for 10 minutes by all our line,
frustrated the attempt; and the Der
wishes baked, swept toward our CEN
ter, upon winch they concentrated
fierce attack. A large force of horse
men, trying to face con tlnuOus hail
OF bullets from the Cameron High
landers, the Lincolnshire regiment and
the Soudanese
Were z teralIy Swept Away,
leading to the, withdrawal of the entire
party, whose dead strewed the field.
The bravery OF the Dervishes can
hardly be overestimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within a
few hundred yards Of our fighting line,
while the mounted emirs absolutely
threw their lives away in bold charges.
When the Dervishes withdrew be-
hind the ridge in frent of their camp,
the whole force marched towards Om-
durham. AS our troops surmounted
the crest adjoining the Nile, the Sou
danese, OH our right, came into con-
tact with the enemy, VINO had reformed
undeG cover of rocky eminence and
had massed beneath the black stan.
dard of the khalifa, in order to make a
supreme effort to
Retrieve the Fortunes of the Day.
A mass, $4,000 strong, bore down on
the Soudanese. General Kitchener
swung round the center and left Of the
Soudanese and seized the rock emf.
hence. and the Egyptians, hitherto in
reserve, joined 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 a depression and within zone of
whitening cross fire from three bril-
gades with the attendant artillery.
The devoted Mahdlsts strove heroic
ally TO make Roadway, but every rush
was stopped whi4e their main body
was literally mown down by a sus-
talned deadly fire. Defantly the Der
wishes planted their standards and
Died Beside Them. ~
Their deep masses gradually melted
TO companies and the companies TO
dribbles beneath the leaden hail. Final
~ they broke and fed, leaving the
iieId white with Jlbban.clad corpses.
AT 1l:15 the sirdar ordered all adj
vance, and our whole force in line
drove the scattered remnant of the io4
snto the desert, our cavalry cutting of
their retreat TO Omdurman.
Khalifa Abdullah. with his harem- and