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Show A Brave Operator Dead. Boston. March 21. Thomas Carroll Boone, the telegraph operator in the war balloon in the operations before Santiago, died Sunday at the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts general hospital, as a result of an operation on a wound received in the fall of the balloon afterit had been shot to pieces, lioone, with two gov eminent otlicers, performed heroic work in the great airship, which was a target for the Spanish gunners until it fell into the trees and threw all the men out. lioone was caught in the drag anchor aud was fearfully wounded. wound-ed. He never fully recovered, although al-though since last fall up to within two days of his death he continued his work as a telegraph operator. |