Arizona republican., 1898-10-10


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 Story Of Omdurman.
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 day broke and TO enemy appeared, he
 divided his army into three corps. The first under Osman AZrak, attacked the village; the second, with the green ban
 ner Of Ali Wad Helu-with him Ab- i dullahi's eldest son, the Sheik-ed-Din- moved toward Kerreri Heights to en- velop our right; the third under Ab- duliahi himself and his brother Ya- kub, remained behind Surgham ready, as need might be, to envelOp our left : or to act as reserve and bar our road ' to O1ndurman."
 ] CHARGE OF THE HANGERS. 1 This is MT. Steevens's account of the HOW famous charge of the Twenty-first Lancers-a charge whereof it must be said, as of that of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, Tt was magnificent, but i, was not war
 i ''Verging somewhat westward, to the rear of Gebel Surgham, they came on some 300 dervishes. Their scouts had i been over the ground a thousand yards ahead Of them, and it was clsar for charge Only to cut them off it was thought better to get little west of them, then left wheel, and thus gallop down on them and dirve them away | from their supports. The trumpsts sang out the order, the troops glided into line, and, four sQuadrOns in col umn, the Twenty-first LanceTs swung into their first charge
 Knee to knee they swept on till they were but 200 yards from the enemy. Then suddenly-then in a fash-they saw the trap. Between them and the 300 there yawned suddenly a deep ra- vine: out Of the ravine there sprang in- Stantly a cloud of dark heads and a brandished lightning Of swords and thunder of savage voices. Mahmud smiled when he heard the tale in pris- on at Halfa, and said it was their fa- yorite stratagem. It had succeeded. Three thousand, if there was one, to a short five hundred; but it was too late 1 to check now. Must go through with it now. The blunders Of British cav airy are the fertile seed Of British glory. Knee to knee the Lancers whirled on. One hundred yards i lfifty-knee to knee-
 Slap. It was just like that said captain bringing his fist hard into his open palm. Through the swordsmen they shore without checking-and then came the khor. The colonel at their head, riding straight through every thing without sword or revolver drawn, l I,.- swords sweeping about his own. He got the charger up again and rode on straight, unarmed, through everything. The squadrons followed him down the fall. Horses plunged, blundered, re- covered. fell; dervishes on the ground lay for the hamstringing cut. Officers pistolled them in passing over as one drops a stone into bucket; troopers thrust till lances broke. then cut; everybody went on straight through everything.
 TO LINGER WAS DEATH.
 And through everything, clean out the other side they came-those that kept up or got up in time. The others were On the ground-in pieces by now, for the cruel swords shore through shoulder and thigh and carved the dead into billets. Twenty-four Of these. and Of those that came out sev- enty-four had felt sword or bullet or spear. Few horses stayed behind among the swords, but nearly 130 were wounded. Lieutenant Robert Grenfel's troops came on place with a jump out as well as a jump in. It lost off, cer. center guide and both flank guides, ten killed and eleven wounded. Yet when they burst struggling out their only thought was to rally and go in again. Rally, No. 2.' yelled a ser geant, so mangled across the face thal his body was a cascade of blood, and nose and cheeks Tapped hideously as he yelled Fall out, sergeant, you're wounded said the subaltern of his troop. No, no, sir; fall ini' came the hoarse answer, and the man reeled in Where are the devils? Show me the men out Of thirty.
 They chafed and stamped and blas- phemed to go through them again, though the cclonel wisely forbade them to face the pit anew. There were. gnashing of teeth and howls Of speech less rage-things half theatrical, half brutal to tell of when blood was cooled, yet things to rejoice over in that they show the fighting devil has not, after all been civilized out Of Britons. Also, there were many and many deeds of self-abandoning heroiSm: of which tale the half will never be told. Take only one Lieutenant De MoHtmOrcncv missed his troop sergeant and rode back among the slashes to lCok for him. There he found the hacked body of Lieutenant Grenfeil. He dismcunted and put it upon his horse, not seeing, in his heat, that life had drained out long since by Q dozen channels The horse bolted under the slackened mus cles and De Montnorency was left alone with his revolver and 3,00o screaming fiends. Captain Kenna and Corporal Swarbrick rods cut, caught i his horse and brought it back; the three answered the fire Of the 3,000 at fifty yards and got quietly back to their own line untouched