Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-09-09
STORY OF THE BATTLE.
Graphic Account Of the Defeat of tn
Khalifa's Army.

Khalifa's Army.
OMDuRMAN, Opposite Khartoum, M.
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 4 o'clock this aftern Don
at the head of the Anglo. Egg ptian col.
umn, after completely routing the Der
wishes, and dealing a 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
encamped at Agaisa, eight miles from
Omdurman. The Dervishes were three
miles distant. At dawn today our cav.
airy, patrolling toward Omdurman,
discovered the enemy advancing to the
attack in battle array,
Chanting War Songs.
Their front consisted of infantrysand
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 1880
our artillery opened fire, which was
answered by the Dervish riflemen.
Their attack developed on our left;
and, in accordance with their tradi.
tional tactics, they swept down the
hillside, with the design Of rushing our
flank. But the whitening fire, main.
tanned for Is minutes by all our line,
frustrated the attempt; and the Der.
wishes balked, swept toward our cen.
ter, upon which they concentrated q
fierce attack. A large force Of horse.
men, trying to face continuous hail
of bullets from the Cameron High.
landers, the Lincolnshire regiment and
the Soudanese
We're Literally Swept Away
leading to the withdrawal of the entire
party, whose dead strewed the field.
The bravery Of the Dervishes can
hardly be oversstimated. Those who
carried the flags 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 be-
hind the ridge in front of their camp,
the whole force marched towards ON.
durham. AS our troops surmounted
the crest adjoining the Nile, the Sou
danese, on our right, came into con.
tact with the enemy, who had reformed
under cover Of rocky eminence and
had massed beneath the black stan.
dard Of the khalifa, in order to make a
supreme effort to
Retrieve tho Fortunes Of tho Day.
A mass, $1,000 strong, bore down on
the Seudanese. General Kitchener
swung round tho center and left of the
soudansss 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' 3 army was caught
in depression and within zone Of
whitening cross fire from three bril-.
eades, with tho attendant artillery. 0
The devoted Mahdists strove heroic
ally 70 make headway, but every rush
was stopped while their main body
was literally mown down by sus..
tanned deadly fire. Defiantly the Der
wishes planted their standards and
4 s. Died Beside Them. 81
Their deep masses gradually melted
10 companies and the companies to
dribbles beneath the leaden hail. Final.
~ they broke and fed, leaving the
field white with Jibban.clad corpses. .
At 1916 the sirdar ordered an ad !.
vance. and our whole force in line
drove the scattered remnant Of the foe
into the desert, our cavalry cutting off
their retreat to thurman. ss. .s5=
Khalifa Abdullah, with his harem, and
Osman Digna, his principal general.
managed TO escape, but Abdullah' 3 ban.
ner and hundreds Of prisoners ~ in
our hands t#is estimated that 70, 900
8of the enemy were slain. Our total
casualties were about 50o.