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Show A llrave Operator Dead. Boston, March 21. Thomas Carrol) lloone, the telegraph operator In tin 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 tall of tho balloon af terlt had been shot to pieces, lloone, with two government gov-ernment officers, pcrformod heroic work In the great airship, which was a target for the Spanish gunners until it fell into tho trees and threw all the men out. lloono was caught In the drag anchor and was fearfully wounded. wound-ed. He never fully recovered, although al-though siuco last fall up to within two days of his death he continued his work as a telegraph operator. |