Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-09-09
STORY OF THE BATTLE.

Graphic Account OF the Defeat Of the
Khalsfa's Army.
OMpURMAN. Opposite Khartoum. Nu.
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 oon
ut tho head OF tho Anglo. Egg ptian col.
umn, after completely routing the Der.
wishes, and dealing Q death blow to
Mahdism. Roughly. our losses were
200, while Thousands Of the Dervishes
we're 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 tho
attack in battle array,
Chanting War Songs.
Their front consisted Of infantry and
cavalry stretched out for three or four
miles.
At 7:2O a. IN. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily In envcloped form. At 1880
our artillery opened fire, which was
answered by the Dervish riasmen.
Their attack developed on our left;
and, in accordance with their trsdi,
tional tactics. they swept down the
hillside, with the design Of rushing our
flank. But the withsring fire, main.
tanned for 10 minutes by all our line,
frustrated the attempt; and the Der.
wishes balked, swept toward our cen.
ter. upon which they concentrated
fierce attack. A large force Of horse.
men, trying to face continuous hail
Of bullets from the Cameron High.
landers. the Linconshire regiment and
the Soudanese
Were Literally swept Away.
leading to the withdrawal Of the entire
party. whose dead strewed tho field.
The bravery Of the Dervishss can
hardly be overestimated. 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 tho Dervishes withdrew be.
hind the ridge in front of their camp,
tho whole force marched towards Om-
durman. As cur troops surmounted
tho crest adjoining the Nile. the Sou.
danese, on cur right, came into con.
tact with the enemy. who had reformed
under cover Of u rocky eminonce and
had massed beneath the black stan.
dard Of the khalifa, in order TO make q
NJ, Dro,no oHort IN
Retrieve tho Fortunes Of the Day.
A mass, $4,000 strong, bore down ON
the Soudanesc. General Kitchener
swung round the center and left Of the
6oudanese and seized tho rock emf.
nence, and the Egg yptians, 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 depression and within a zone Of
withering cross fire from three bri.
gades with tho attendant artillery.
The devoted Mahdists strove heroic
ally to make headwsy, but every rush
was stopped while their main body
was literally mown down by q sus.
S0bASV Oc10Ay u1os 00u0Ut4y tu0 OO1s
wishes planted their standards and
Died Beside Them.
Their deep masses gradually melted
to companies and the companies to
dribblcs beneath tho leaden hail. Final.
ly they broke and fed, leaving the
field white with Jibban. clad corpses.
AT ll:i5 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 Oh
their retreat to Omdurman.
Khalifa Abdullah, with his harem, and
Osman Digna, his principal general,
managed to ,scape. but Abdullah's ban.
ner aud hundreds Of prisoners are in
ou- hands Itis estimated that 10000
Of the enemy were slain. Oar total
rasualties were about 6OO.
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