| Show AT FORT DOUGLAS Of firs wives are arc Grief stricken at t firm re orts ort salt lake city july 5 the first re ports of the battle at santiago it in which the twenty fourth infantry re ri bently stationed at fort douglas did huch buch heroic fighting were greatly ex ag one rumor gained cur reney rency that eveia officer was waa I 1 billed and only twenty six men out of the entire regiment were uninjured while the th I 1 amot As at once onca discredited by its iti absurdity yet it indi atad d that th regimen regimes regi mens had been in the thick of the fight aud and a great many ol of the 1008 1000 lulled killed and wounded might belong to the regiment wives were almost distracted when definite newil newa was waa received of the casualties I 1 he first reports did not distinguish between those killed and vs wounded ou the th first encouraging news newa received was a 8 telegram froni from senator cannon which stated from best beat information that none of the officers were killed on an th the battlefield battled eld this inspired hope and relieved the tha strain the in mhd i leg lmont t are ar BS as follows lieutenant colonel E 11 II liscum shot in thearin captain james ac R baiett second lieutenant welsh sunstroke captain Captai all II 11 B U ducat shot near the heart captain J J breeton Br lai reton wounded in left leg J 11 augustin second lieutenant since died lieutenant Lieuten int henry lyons captain dodge second lieutenant J il II hughes the tha following privates of the tha awen ty fourth are either killel or wounded alex higgins iggins II wounded in thigh t 0 L pope in thigh 11 W robinson binson Ko in left IL il hit hip alfred thompson hurt by burst ing shell fred freda J IN williams 1111 ams in left leg ci ams in left aim vat keyes keye through thighs mason robinson in back sergeant allis in right foot R henderson right rig lit foot lullar buller details are awaited witla with eav jety mrs augustin Auguh tin is not at the fort having latt laft for a bit lt with be bay in bausa when nhen the regiment left jolt captain ducat is ia reported dead but the depoi t has hai not been confirmed |
