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Show SORIIOW AT TORT D0UQLA3. rHHecfa Ultea Are (Irlclilrlekan at rlral llrpurla. Halt I.ako City, July S Tho flrat re-( re-( rti of the battlo nt Santiago, In nl loh the Twenty-fourth Infantry recently re-cently atalloned at l'orl Douglas, did aeh heroic fighting, were greatly exaggerated ex-aggerated One rumor gained currency cur-rency that every oDlcor waa hilled and only twrnty lx men out of tho entire regiment were uninjured While the rumor wa at once dlicrcdltel by It absurdity, yet ll Indicated that th regimen", had been lu the thick of the tight, aud a great many of tho 1,000 killed and wounded might belong to the regiment, 'lhcnfllcer wire were, almoat distracted ben definite newa wai received of the caaualtle. The flrat report did not dlatlngulih be-tweeu be-tweeu thoie klllrd and wounded Th flrat encouraging new received wa a telegram from Mtnator Cannon which alatcd, from best Information, that nona of tha officer wcro killed ou th bttlelield Thl laiplrcd hop and rcllevid th (train The caaualllc lu the roglmeut are a follow Lieutenant Colonel U II. I.lacum, allot In llienr m, Captain Jamet C llrelts rJecond Lieutenant I.yman ITtlih.iunitrokei Captain II H Ducat, ihot near the heart, Laptaln J J llrereton, wounded In left legi J II Auguitln, iccond HcuUuant, since died) Lieutenant Henry Lyons) Captain Dodge; Heeonil Lieutenant J II llugties Tho following private of the Twenty. Twen-ty. fourth are either killed or wounded Alex Hlgglus, wounded In thigh) 0. L. rofJe, in thigh. II tt Iloblnson.lnlcft hip) Alfred Thompson, hurt by bursting burst-ing bells I'redJ MUIams Inleftlegi Jame Cruina In left arm I'at Kcyes, through thigh, Mason llnblnauu, lu book) litrgcant Allla In right foot) 11. Heuderaon, right foot. Vuller dttalla are awaited with anxiety Mr. Augustlu I not at th fort, having left for a visit with her parent lu Kansas when the nginicut left. Captain Ducat Is reported dead, but th report ho not been confirmed. |