Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-09-08
A DECISIVE BATTLE.
Anglo Egyptian Army Captures
Mahdist Stronghold.
Annihilates Dervish Army and Drives
the Remnant Into the Desert
"A Fatal Blow Dealt to
o.. M0hdism.

London, Sept. 5.-The war office has
received the following:
a'"Omdurrnan, Opposite Khartoum, On
the-Nile, Nubia, Sept.2, by Camel Post to
Nasri.-The sirdar, Gen. Sir Herbert Kitch-
ener, with the khalifa's black standard,
captured during the battle entered Omdur-
man, the capital of Mahdiam, at - four
O'Clock this afternoon at the head Of the
Anglo-Egyptian column, after completely.
routing the Dervishes and, dealing death
blow to mahdism. Roughly, our losses
were 200, while thousands of the dervishes
| were killed or wounded. Karl Neufeld was
rescued unframed.
Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army
encamped at Agatha, eight miles from ON
durham. The Dervfshes were three miles
distant. At dawn to-day our cavalry, pa
trolling toward Omdu1man discovered the
| enemy advancing to the attack in battle
| array, chanting war songs. Their front
| consisted ofinfantry and cavalry, stretched
| out for three or four miles. Countless ban
ners futtered over their masses. and the
| copper and brass drums resounded through
! the serried ranks Of the savage warriors,
who advanced unwaveringly, with all their
| cld-time ardOr.g# 5 Z 0
'Our infantry formed up outside the
| camp. On the left were the First battalion
Northumberland fusileers, the Second bat
! talon Lancashire fusileers and the First
battalion grenadier guards, with the Max
i'm battery, manned by the Royal Irish
| fusileers In our center were the First
battalion Warwickshire regiment the First
battalion Cameron highlanders and the
| First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with
Maxlms worked by detachment of the
Royal artillery. under Maj. William. On
our right were the Soudanese brigades
| commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. Nc
Donald. The Egyptian brigades held the
reserves, and both f1anks were supported
by the MaximN ordenfeldt batteries
| AT 7:2O a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation. At TAO
our artillery opened fire. which was an
swered by the Dervish riflemen. Their at
| tack developed on our left, and iE accord
| ance with their traditional tactics they
swept down the hillside with the design
| of rushing our flank. But the whitening
! fire maintained for Is minutes by all our
| line frustrated the attempt, and the der
! wishes baked and swept toward our CEN
| ter, upon which they concentrated fierce
attack. A large force of horsemen, trying
to face continuous hail of bullets from
the Cameron highlanders, the Lincolnshire
| regiment and the Soudanese was literally
swept away, leading to the withdrawal of
the entire body, whose dead strewed the
| field.
Among the chief incidents Of the battle
was a brilliant charge by the Twenty-first
lancers under Lieut.. COL Martin. Gal
Looping down on a detached body of the
enemy, they found the Dervish swords
men massed behind, and were forced to
| charge home against appalling odds. The
lancers hacked through the mass, rallied
and kept the Dervish horde at bay. Lieut..
Grenfell, nephew of Gen. Sir Francis
Grenfell, was killed; four other officers were
wounded: 81 men were killed and 20
wounded.
when the Dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp, the whole
force marched in echelon of battalions to-
ward Omdurman. AS our troops sur
mounted the crest adjoining the Nile, the
Soudanese on our right came into contact
with the enemy. who had reformed under
cover of a rocky eminence and had masSed
beneath the black standard of the khalifa.
in order to make a supreme effort to re-
trieve the fortunes of the day. A mass,
5000 strong, bore down on the Soudanese.
Gen. Kitchener swung round the center
and left of the Soudanese and seized the
rocky eminence, and the Egyptians hith-
erto in reserve, joined the firing line in ten
minutes, and before the Dervishes could
drive their attack home
THE flower of the khalifa's army was
caught In a depression, and within a
zone of whitening cross fire from three
brigades, with the attendant artillery.
The devoted mahdists strove heroically to
make Roadway, but every rush
stopped, while their main body was lit
orally mown down by sustained deadly
cross fire. Defantly the Dervishes planted
their standards and died beside them.
Their dense masses gradually melted to
companies and the companies to driblets
beneath the leaden. hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white with
jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow-drift dot
ted meadows. At II is the sirdar ordered
an advance, and, our whole force in line.
drove the scattered remnant of the foe into
the desert, our cavalry cutting off their
retreat to Omdurman.
''Tha heroic bravery Of the Dervishea
evoked universal admiration. Time after
time their dispersed and broken forces
reformed and hurled themselves upon the
Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs conspicuous
ly 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 Cecil
Rhodes"
Herr Karl Neufcld, who is referred
to in the foregoing dispatch from
Cairo as rescued unframed from the
Cervishes, fell into the hands of the
mahdi's followers in the neighborhood
Of Dongola, in the late spring or early
summer of 1887. He was the last Eu.
ropean male caplI"e of Importance re-
naming in the p.wer of the dervishes.
London, Sept. 5.-The war Office has
received the following dlspalch from
Gen. Kitchener, dated Saturday even
ing: "The remnant OF the Khalifa's |
force has surrendered, and have now
very large number Of prisoners on
my hands. Our cavalry and gunboats
are still pursuing the Khalifa and his
chiefs, who, with only bout 40 fight
ing men, are apparently making for
Kordofan." 49,
London Sept. s. The war CORE
spondent Of the Daily Telegraph with
the Anglo-Egyptian forces says: