The age-herald., 1898-09-06
BLOODY BATTLE FOUGHT
 ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE
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erto in reserve, joined the firing line in ten minutes, and before the dervishes could drive their attack home.
 The flower of the Khalifas army was caught in depression and within a zone of whitening cross-fre from three brigades with the attendant artillery. The devoted Mahdists strove heroically to make head way, but every march was stopped, while their main body was literally moved down by sustained deadly cross-fire.
 Defiantly the dervishes planted their standards and died beside them. Their masses gradually melted to companies, and the companies to dribble beneath the leaden hail. Finally they broke and fled, leaving the field white with jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow-drift dotting meadows.
 Entire Forcc in Line
 At 1:15 o'clock the sirdar ordered an ad- vance, and our whole force in line drove back the scattered remnant of the foe into the desert our cavalry cutting off their re- treat to Omduriian.
 Among the chief incidents of the battle was a brilliant charge by the Twenty-frst Lancers, under Lieutcnant- Colonel Martin. Galloping down on a detached body of the enemy, they found the 0ervish swordsrnen massed behind and were forced to charge home against appalling odds. The Lan- cers hacked through the mass, rallied and kept the dervish horde at bay. Lieutenant Grenfell, nephew of General Sir Francis Grenfelf, was killed, four officers were wounded, twenty-one men were killed and twenty wounded.
 The Egyptian cavalry were in close fight ing throughout with the Baggara horsemen. For a short period captured and held the gun, but it was brilliantly retaken.
 The heroic bravery of the dervishes evok- ed universal admiration. Time after time their dispersed and broken forces reformed and hurled themselves upon the Anglo Egyptians, their emirs conspicuously lead ing and spurning death
 Even when wounded and in death agonieS they raised themselves to fire last shot.
 Among the wounded is Colonel Rhodes. the correspondent of the London Times, and brother of Cecil Rhodes.
 Charge of the Lancers
 Dispatches from Omdurman relate that the newspaper correspondent, Howard, who was afterwards killed, rode in the gallant charge of the Twenty y-first Lancers. These troops were scouting, when they saw in the bush between 600 and 700 dervishes. The Lancers charged the enemy and suddenly found themselves face to face with 2,000 swordsmen. being thus outnumbered at least four to one. The dervishes were hid- den from view in hollow The Lancers charged through them reformed and charged back to recover their wounded, who were being savagely slaughtered.
 The official list of the British officers kill ed in the capture of Omdurman was two, while thirteen were wounded. Of the men, twenty-three were killed and ninety-n.ne were wounded.
 The loss sustained by the Egyptians was one officer killed, eight wounded; twenty men killed, 221 wounded.
 Colonel Rhodes, a brother of Cecil Rhodes, and correspondent for the London Times, was severely wounded a bullet having struck him in the shoulder u The war correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph with the Anglo Egyptian forces says:
 .'Khalifa Abdullah, with his harem, and Osman Digna, his principal general, man. aged to escape but Abdullahs banner and thousands of prisoners are fin our hands. It is estimated that 15,0O0 enemy were Slain. Our total casualties were about 50).
 "Besides Colonel Rhodes another corre- spondent was slightly wounded MT. How ard, the New York Herald's correspondent. was slain by a shell in Omdurman." An Awful Slaughter
 q The war correspondent of the Daily News says:
 "Our victory was not easily or cheaply won The Dervish loss was enormous, It is estimated that the killed of the enemy were no fewer than 5000
 "Our whole force was engaged in the fighting from 6:3O a. m. until sundown The Dervishes displayed marvellous bravery
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