Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-03-12 | Page 3 | Col. Liscum Shot While Carrying the Flag

to t Liscum um Shot While Carrying the flag Fag The thrilling story artory of how Colonel Liscum iscum of the gallant glant Ninth infantry took tok the stars and a d stripes from a a color sergeant on the walls of Tain after the sergeant had ha and pressed on only to be shot down himself has ha Just been told by Sergeant Edward Gorman Goran on a bed of pain and a suffering In the military hospital hospit at the te Presidio ll I thought a house hou had ha fallen falen on me rae when I was wa struck Gorman says in relating his story stor A bullet bulet entered my let knee another my thigh and another anoter cut a a a furrow across my stomach stomach ach aeh Colonel Liscum who vho ho was wa a few Cew feet ahead of me came back and asked Are you badly hurt old man yu Observing I was wa Injured Injure he grabbed up the flag fag and started forward on the therun therun to to run rn ordering two men carry ca me cc va vaI I saw Liscum fall fal just as the men men picked me up ug While we were going toward shelter Sheler one of my bearers bearer was killed kUe and nd the other shot in the head heath