The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-25

peLlHu SucH or nIS people aS He liouShN
 of no value, and hurrying away with
 all his women and treasure towards the
 south They had horses and cameis,
 and so, upon the best of them, off they
 set. As we later on, rode along the
 great wall towards the Nile, we passed
 the northeast angle, where the Lyddite
 shells had made breaches in the thick
 structure. For a space of fifty yards
 there were gaps and three or four wide
 openings through which infantry could
 have scrambled
 There was something like a reception
 for the Sirdar upon entering near the
 center of the town. The women and
 children, mostly slaves, filled the thor
 oughfare, and in their peculiar guinea-
 fowl cackling fashion cheered the
 troops. Notables in jibbehs, which
 they had not had time to turn inside
 out, as nearly everybody did after
 wards came and salaamed, smote their
 breasts, kissed hands and the hem of
 the headquarter garments, and threw
 dust in some cases upon their already
 frowsy heads. It was curious to watch
 the various recognitions extended to
 Slatin, and how the latter did not for
 get his old friends, who mad been kind
 to him, nor his eastern manners in e%-
 changing courtesies. When they req
 lized that we were not cannlba!s, as
 they did very quickly. and that the
 Khalifa and others must have deceived
 them, they ran about among the troops.
 It was with difficulty that the ranks were kept clear at times. Our leniency
 surprised them. Part of the breach led
 into the beit-e1-mal, or public granary. A few wretched, hungry slaves ven
 tured to help themselves to the grain,
 chiefly dhuro, that had poured into the
 street. Within half an hour all the wo-
 men and children in the town, appa- rently, to the number of several thou sands, were running pellmell to loot the granary. Men also joined in plum dering the Khalifa's storehouse, which the troops had no interest in prevent ing. They ran against our horses, tripped over each other, and fell in their crazy haste to fill sacks, skins and nondescript vessels of all sorts, metal, wood, clay, with grain. Women stag gered under burdens that would assure their households with food for months. It became a saturnalia and jubile, for the long half-starved slaves, men and women. By and by footing became
 more general. The houses of Ernirs who had run away or were killed were
 entered and plundered by the populace. Donkeys were caught and loaded with spells of war, and driven off to huts on l the outskirts near where the troops bivouacked after their long and fati-
 guing day. During the earlier part of ,i,l,+ 1 hubbub in Omdurman and constant fir l ing of rifles. Maxwell's men, however,
 assisted by numbers of friendly Jaalin,
 succeeded in enforcing something like
 order and peace.
 l When it was found that the Khalifa 1 had escaped by the south end of Om- i durman Colonel Broadwood, with his 1 two regiments of Egyptian cavalry and
 the camel corps, started in pursuit. ! Gunboats also proceeded up the White 1 Nile to head off the fugitives. Unfor- I tunately there had been a considerable I rainfall, and the desert routes toward l Kordofan were not absolutely water i less. The cavalry soon found that they
 were upon hot trail, and men, women
 and children, who had been unable to keep pace with the flying Khalifa and 1 Osman Digna, were picked up. Some of these no doubt. had purposely given 1 their master the slip.
 On Saturday, September 3, I rode in l from camp and revisited Omdurman I Patt of Macdonalds brigade had been 1 brought in to help to keep the peace 1 Already measures were being taken to
 clean up the horrible town. The dead ' Dervishes had been buried in their na- 1 tive burial places, and their wounded l were being removed to the spacious walled enclosure called the mosque It
 was also turned into a prison as well as I a hospital. Gangs of yesterdays furi- ous foen1en, now quiet and subdued
 enough were doing scavenging work. l The dead animals were being hauled l away or buried deep where they lay
 when they could not be moved. I visi- l ted the two passable houses in Ondur-
 man. I visited visited the two passah1e ] houses in Omdurnan, the Khalifa's and l his son Osman's. Both had a pre-
 tence of tidiness and comfort, paved l courts, doors, windows with shutters,
 plastered walls and cupboards. There were rooms in both houses which were | furnished in al rude style with articles l of European manufacture. Of gfass,
 mirrors and crockery there was plenty. l The big mirror in the Khalifa's favorite
 salon was smashed into atoms by an- l gry Jaain who got in. The kitchens, l stables and outhouses were barbaric in | their dirtiness, but the scattered rooms 1 in the Khalifa's curious compound wore ! decently clean. There were dead and | great splashes of blood around ''the | Mahdi's tonb.' Of one hundred and l twenty who were praying in the vii 1 cinity when a Lyddite shell burst, but eighteen emerged alive, and soraly 1 wounded. The tomb, carefully stuc-
 coed over inside and out, is built of ] stone and we'll burned bricks The l base of stone and well burned bricks 1 The base of the squire wall from which ! the cone-shaped dome springs is about
 six feet thick, tapering to about eigh- 1 teen inches at the apex. Great llo1 S | had been knocked in the northeast side, i and the rubbish had tumbled in, break 1 ing the iron grill around the catafalque 1 Beneath, covered by two huge blocks of 1 stone, lay Mahomed Achmed's remains.
 Early that day violent hands were laid i on the brass rails in the outer windows 1 The catafalque was stripped of it's l black and red cloth covering, and tire | woodwork was totally destroyed All ] the yellow-1ettered panels, with texts I Il. L4 FoLI