The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-10
General Kitchener's Army Fights
a Hard Battle at On
durham.
THE BRITISH ENTER THE CITY
Deryishes Are Slaughtered by the
Wholesale by British
Bullets.
FOUGHT WITH DEsPERTe BRAVERY
Dispatches Received Telling that
the Victory Is Comp,ctc---Nfes-
cs of Congratulate"
Are Sent.

omdurman, Opposite Khartoum,
Nubia, Sept. 6.-Geneynl Sir Herbert
| Kitchener, with the khalifa's black
standard, captured during the battle,
entered Omdurman, the capital OF
| M%ahidham, at 4 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon at the head of the Anglo-Egyp.
| ton column, after completely routing
the dervishes and dealing a deathblow
to mahdism. Roughly, our losses were
200, while thousands of the dervishes
were killed or wounded.
Friday night the Anglo-IIgyptian
army encamped at Agatha, eight miles
from Omdurman, and the dervishes
were three miles distant. At dawn of
day our cavalry, p%atrolling toward
| Omdurman, discovered the enemy adj
yancing to the attack in battle array,
chanting war songs. Their front con
sisted of infantry and cavalry
stretched out for three or four miles.
| Countless banners tioated over their
masses and the copper and brass
drums resounded through the serried
ranks of the savage warriors, who ad,
vanced unwnveringly with all their
old time ardor.
At 7:20 u. m. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and adj
vanced steadily in enveloping forma-
ton. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire,
which was answered by the dervish
rifiemen. Their attack developed on
our left and in accordance with their
traditional tactics, they swept down
the hillside, with the design of crush
ing flank. But the whitening fire
maintained for fifteen minutes by all
our line frustrated the attempt and
the dervishes baked, and swept
toward our center, upon which they
concentrated q fierce attack.
Desperate Bravery of Dervishes.
A large force of horsemen, trying
to face a continuous hail of bullets
from the Cameron ~highlanders, the
Lincolnshire regiment and the Sou
danese, wac literally swept away,
lending to the withdrawal of the en-
tire body, whose dead strewed the
field. The bravery Of the dervishes
can hardly be o~verstated. Those who
carried the flag struggled to within a
few hundred yards of onr fighting
line, while the mounted emirs abso-
lutely threw their lives away in bold
charges. M
When the dervishes withdrew be-
hind the ridge in front of their camp,
the whole force marched in echelon of
battulions toward Omdurman. AS our
troops surmounted 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 be-
meath the black standard of the kha-
| Hf0 In nr1or IN r,o1n n c,trrnr,o af
fort to retrieve the fortunes of the
day. A mass of $4,000 strong bore
down on the S%oudanese.
General Kitchener swung round the
center and left of the Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence, and the
regiments hitherto in reserve joined
the firing line in ten minutes, and be-
fore the dervishes-could drive their at
tnck home.
The flower of the khalifa's army
was caught in n depression and within
a zone of whitening crossfre from
three b%ripades, with the attendant ar
tllery. The devoted mahdists strove
heroically to make Roadway, but ev-
cry rush was stopped. while the main
body was literally moved down by a
sustained deadly crosstire. Defantly
the dervishes planted their standards
and died beside them. Their dense
masses gradually melted to compa-
mes n the companies to driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fed. leaving the field white
with libbn clad corpses, like a snow.
drift dotted meadow.
At 11:15 General Kitchener ordcrod
an advance and our whole force in
line drove the scattered remnant ri
the foe into the desert, our cayaIrv
cutting Off their retreat to Omdur.
man. ohiuur
brilliant Charges by Iancers.
Among the chief incidents Of tbe
battle was a brilliant charge bv tbe
Iwenty-first lancers, under Lien+en.
n Colonel Martin. Galloping down
on a detached body of the enemy. tbay
found the dervish s%wordsmen mossed
behind and We're forced to charge
home against appalling odds. The Ian.
ers hacked through the mass, rallied
and kept the dervish horde Mt Inv.
lieutenant Grenfell, nephew of Gen.
ernl Sir Francis Cirenfell. was killed
Tour other officers We're wounded 81
men were killed and 20 wounded.
The Egyptian cavalry were in close
hghting throughout with the Baggar;
horsemen. For a short period the on.
envy captured and held the gun. but !,
was brilliantly retnken. The heroic
bravery OF the dervishes evoked uni