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Show A llravs Onvrntor llrail. lloitou, March 31. Thomas Carroll lloone, the telegraph operator In tho war balloon In the operation 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 tho balloon aftarlt had been shot to pieces, lloone, with two gov ernment officers, iierfonned herolo work In tha great nlrshlp, which was a target for tho Spanish gunners until It fell Into the trees and threw all the men out. Iloonu was caught In tha drag anchor and waa fearfully wounded. wound-ed. He never fully recovered, although al-though lnco laat fall up to within two days of hi death ho continued hi work as a telegraph ocratur. |