Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-06
LANCERS ARR HEROES.
Brave Charge Made by Them ut the
0mdurman Battle.
KHARTUM LIES IN RUINS.
Sir Herbert Kitchener's Victorious Troops
In Pursuit of the Fleeing khnlifa.
The Sirtlar's Report of the An
glO- Egyptian Losses.

London, Sept 6. Full particular!
show that Sir Herbert Kitchener's vic
| tory over the derVishes is complete anC
that the khalifa is in flight.
! The official list gives the number OF
| British officers killed in the capture OF
| Omdurman as two, while 13 were wound
| ed. OF the men 20 were killed and 9!
| wounded. The loss sustained by the
| natives was: Officers. l killed, wound
ed; men, 20 killed, POI wounded. Colo
| mel Rhodes, a brother of Cecil Rhodes
and correspondent of the London Times
was severely wounded, bullet having
struck him in the shoulder.
Dispatches from Omdurman relate
that the newspaper correspondent How
ard, who was afterward killed, rode in
the gallant charge of the Twenty 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 them
selves face to face with 1000 swords
men, being thus outnumbered at least
four to one. The dervishes We're hid
den from view in hollow. The Ian
GERS charged through them, reformed
and charged back to recover their
wounded, who were being savagely
slaughtered.
The completeness of the victory of the
British forces under General Herbert
Kitchener in the Sudan is indicated by
his official report to the war office, as
follows:
"The remnant of the khalifa's forces
has surrendered l have a very large
number of prisoners. Cavalry and gum
\c, II, : he III l.;
chiefs They have only $50 fighting
men with them. l visited Khartum
and found it a complete ruin The peo-
pie are delighted. Khartum is the hest
position. Omdurman's stencil was un-
bearable, and therefore l have moved to
Khorshambat. The wounded are doing
WE'LL"
DervIsl,es Very Brave.
The English newspaper correspond
ents are unanimous in their ac-
acknowledgements of the bravery of the
dervishes. The Daily Mail correspond
ent says that the enemy attacked the
camp at $50 o'clock in the morning, but
were driven back with heavy loss before
they were within 100 yards. They again
advanced in face of fire that no Euro
peans could face. For some time there
was a terrific fusillade, and then the
attack died away Afterward the ground
outside the camp was seen to be cover
ed with bodies lying in serried lines.
The British loss was slight
At $3.50 the expedition advanced to.
ward Omdurman. and then the battle
became more furious than ever the
fighting lasting for two hours. The der
wishes displayed desperate heroism,
hundreds of them rushing to certain
death. When the smoke of the battle
was blown away, the ground was car
peted with the dead. The dervishes lost
at least 5000 killed. Thousands of the
enemy surrendered.
The news of General Kitcheners vic
tory over the dervishes at Omdurman
was received with the greatest satisfac-
ton here, where it is held that England
has at last wiped out the stigma attach I
ing to her defeat in the previous expe-
dition to the Sudan. Early crowds |
gathered about the statue in Trafalgar
square of General Charles (Chinese) |
Gordon, who was killed at Khartum /
on Jan. 26. 1855, after having been be-
sieeed in that city by the dervishes for
1881 days. Some one had placed on the !
pedestal a placard with the Inscription
Avenged at Last" and when the peo-
pie saw it they burst into loud cheer
ing
The police made no attempt to remove
the placard, and later in the day similar
placards were placed on the pedestal
all of which We're greeted with cheers.
Throngs of hero worshipers gathered
near the statue. and there was much
displayed. which proved the
deep hold cen raj Gordon had on the
hearts Of the people