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Show PEOPLE WOUNDED BY STRAY SHOTS Eight Persons Receive Serious Injuries From Mexican Bullets in Border Fighting. Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 2. Five persons per-sons on tho American side of tho boundary were wounded as a result of the fighting between Carranza and Villa troops at Augua Prieta yesterday yester-day and last night, according to reports re-ports received early today. Tho wounded: Louis F. Taylor, restaurant employe, em-ploye, struck in spine, paralyzed. Corporal Jones, Company G, Seventh Sev-enth infantry, shot through both thighs. OUle T. "Whiddon, private Company A, Soventh infantry, hit in neck. H. K. Jones, letter carrier, wounded in shoulder. Eight-year-old Mexican boy shot in stomach. Taylor was at the United States customs house during the fighting yesterday and was struck as he turned turn-ed to run for cover. The fusillade of bullets endangered a throng of American Amer-ican soldiers, Mexican women, and children gathered there. Whiddon wa3 struck while on guard at the railroad rail-road station several blocks from the border. H. K. Jones was standing in front of his home on Seventh street when hit by a stray bullet oo |