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Show PRIVATE HAS HAND BLOWN OFF. Nogales, Ariz., July 7. Private Charles Nelson, company M, Twelfth regulars, Infantry, had his left hand blown from his wrist tonight in a mysterious explosion which followed, ho said, an attack by two unidentified persona. Tho surgeon who attended him said that nothing less than tho explosion of a bomb, stick of dynamite, dyna-mite, or poiutblank discharge of a double-barreled shot gun, could have caused tho injury. The alleged assault took place about 100 yards outside the lines of the Twelfth infantry camp on a well traveled trav-eled road. Tho explosion was heard r nearly a mile. |