| Show DEAD doctors cut out his tongue to save him but the growth of cancer could not be stopped conn oct lohoar lO Koar admiral francis M bunco U S N retired died today at am home here admiral death phlp waa not entirely unexpected as hia family had been warned to expect the worst lust slay cancer of tho tongue developed and an operation in boston resulted in the removal of alio tongue iri september the disease attacked the throat and the patient grew weaker from that time fighting n hope leaa battle with the courage which haa always characterized the man two aweeka ago he took to his bed and had been practically confined there ever since fews aam n bunia wag 25 anal WAs jsam al ma distinction in the civil part in the blockade of C and in the capture of i S C july 10 ho commanded to expedition which co with till in the reduction of con works on the island nd in the attack on fort sumter sept lie saved the monitor patapsco in the siege of charleston in november ho was wounded by the premature erple ion of a shell in the turret of the pa ue was on the staff of admiral dahlson and received rece ired honorable men tion time aad time again for gallant conduct after the war ho achieved distinction in taking the monitor from philadelphia to san francisco that ba ing the first extended voyage of ah iron dad ue received a captains sion in 1883 and was made a commodore in 1803 in SOS ho was given the baale of rear admiral |
