Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-12
GEN. GORDON'S DEATH
VENGED.


lows:
The sardar, Gen. Sir Herbert Kit
chener, with the Khalifa black stand
ard, captured during the battle, en-
tered Omdurnan, the capital of Nah
dism, at 1 O'Clock this afternoon at
the head OF the Anglo Egyptian col
umn, alter completely routing the
dervishes and ,dealing death blow to
Mahdism.
Roughly, our losses were 200, while
thousands of the dervishes were kill
ed Or wounded.
Last night the Anglo Egyptian
army encamded at Agaiza eight miles
from Omdurman. The dervishes were
our cavalry patrolllng toward Omdur-
man, discovered the enemy advanc-
ing to the attack in battle array chant
ing waf songs. Their front consisted
of infantry and cavalry streached out
for three or four miles. Countless
banners huttered over the masses Of
men and the copper and brass drums
resounded through the ranks Of the
savage warriors, who advanced I'M
waveringly with all their old time ar
dor
Their attack developed on our left
and in accordance with their tradit-
ional tactic, they swept down the hills
with the design Of rushing our flank.
But the whitening fire maintained for
Is minutes by all our line frustrated
the attempt and the derviihes banked
swepted toward our center, upon
which they concentrated fierce at
tack. A large force of horsemen try
ing to face a continuous hail of bullets
from the Cameron Highlanders, the
Lincolnshire regiment and the Sou
danese was literally swept away, lead
ing to the withdrawal Of the entire
body whose dead strewed the field.
The bravery of the dervishes can
herdly be overstated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
a few hundred yards of our fighting
line, while the mounted Emirs abso
lutely threw their lives away in bold
charges.
When the dervishes withdrew be-
hind the ridge in front Of their camp
the whole force marched in battalions
toward Omdurman. AS our troops sur
mounted the crest adjoining the Nile,
the Soudanese, on our right, came in
to contact with the enemy, who were
formed under cover rocky eminence
and had massed beneath the black
standard of the Khalifa in order to
make supreme effort to retrieve the
fortunes Of the day. A mass $4,000
bore down on the Soudanese
Gen. Kitchner swung around the
center and left of the Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence; and the
Egyptians, hitherto held in reserve,
joined the FREEING line in ten minutes
and before the dervishes could drive
their attack home.
The lower part of the Khalifa's
army was caught in depression and
within a zone Of whitening cross fire
from three brigades, with the attend
ant artillry. The devot ed Mahdists
strove heroically TO make Roadway
but every rush was stopped, while
their main body was ideally mown
down by a sustained deadly cross
fire.
Defiantly the dervishes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to
companies and the companies to drib
lets beneath the leaden hail Finally
broke and fed leaving the field white
with jibbah- clad corpses, like a snow
drift dotted meadow
At 11.15 the Sirdar ordered an ad-
vance; and our whole force in line
drove the scattered remnant OF the
foe into the desert, our cavalry cut
ting off their retreat to Omdurman'
The heroic bravery Of the devishes
evoked universal admiration. Time
after time their dispersed and broken .
forces reformed and hurled themsel-
YES upon the Anglo Egyptians, their
emirs conspicuousiy leading and
spurning death. Even when wounded
and in death agonies they raised
themselves to fire last shot.
Among the wounded is Col. Rhodes
the correspondent of the London
Times and a brother of CecilR nodes.
Great Improvement.