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CARNEGIE HERO AWARDS
First Disbursements From ths
$5,OOO,OOO Fund. &,
Survivors of the Brockton Disaster GET
$4,000 - Medals and Money fos
YTidorsof Three Brave Men =

Pittsburg, Pa.-The Carnegie Hero
Commission met here and made the
first awards provided for in the $780,
600 fund created by Andrew Carnegie.
Nine persons were rewarded for brave
acts, six Of them receiving bronze med
ais and three silver medals. Three
widows who lost their husbands while
the latter were performing acts OF
bravery received money.
The commission voted $4,000 to the
fund for the survivors of the Brockton
(Mass.) shoe factory explosion. In
Guiding the amount Of money given
survivors Of heroes and for educational
purposes the board disposed Of $12, 200.
The contract for manufacturing the
medals was awarded to a Philadelphia
firm. The commission has not yet de-
cided upon the design Of the medals.
Since the estab lishment Of the fund
on April Is, 405 cases have been re-
ceived. OF this number 233 have been
refused as not within the scope Of the
fund. 159 are awaiting investigation.
and nine have been granted. The per-
son to whom medals were awarded.
and their acts of heroism, were as fol-
lows:
Louis A. Bauman. Jr.. aged seven
teen, Of Rodi, Allegheny County, Pa.
received a bronze medal. On July IT,
1904, while a number Of boys were
swimming in Sulphur. Pond Charles
Stevick jumped from a sp~ringboard
into the pond and cried for help. Bau-'
man dived three times for Stevick and
finally dragged linn to shore.
Lavinia Steele, twenty-seven, OF
Iowa City, Iowa. got a bronze, medal.
George K. Hill. of Burlington, and a,
party Of young women went skating
on the Iowa River December 9, 1904.
The ice broke under Hill. Miss Steele.
secured an eight-foot pole and dragged:
Hill out of the water, risking her life
on the thin ice. s''
Thomas II. Mccain, thirty-two, Of.
Portland, Me-, saw Alfonso Sekosky,
aged eight. fall into the ocean from the
bridge connecting Portland and South;
Portland. Mccain directed some boys;
to bring a boat around to him and!
dived into the oeean. Sekosky threw
his arms around McCann's neck, who
swan with him. The boat reached
him, and the boys took Sekosky from
McCann's grasp. but Mccain weak
ened, sank back into the water and
was drowned. Cora McCann. the
widow, gets a bronze medal and $500.
Gideon King Marshall, %thirty-nine, of
Springdale, Allegheny County. Pa, lost
bis life going down into a gaseous we'll
to rescue Arthur TRULY, a laborer who
had been overcome by gas. Sarah a.
Marshall, his widow, receives q silver
medal and $500 to pay off a mortgage
on her home.
On April 4, 1904, Alexander Gamer
on, twenty-seyen years old, Of Lindsay
County, Ontario: saw George n.
organs, a boy, fall into the Scugag
River. Cameron jumped in after the
boy, caught him and swan ashore. He
suffered from cold, exhaustion and ner-
vous shock. He was awarded a silver
medal.
Seymour J. Leighton, q m%achinist,
lost his life July 4, 1904, IN the Merri-
mac River, Lawrence, Mass, while
rescuing Mary GeneYieve Kane and
Evelyn Bliss. The girls were in a ca.
noe and were swept over a thirty-foot
waterfall. His widow received q
bronze medal. 20
John j. Heal1, a hospital attendant
at Ellis Island, New York, was award.
ed a bronze medal for saving the life
of an immigrant girl who had jumped
into the bay. ~.
Miss Ernestine P. Atwood. aged sew
cnteen, of Melrose.' Mass, was bathing
.~~ r.
saw Harry NJ. Smith struggling in the
water and almost exhausted. She res
cued him, and receives $500 for educa-
tional purposes and a silver medal.
John ]. Riley, aged torty-four, re-
ceives q bronze medal for saving Au-
gust Rolkem, Of Brooklyn, N. Y. from
drowning off the Iron Steamboat Com"
pany's pier at Coney Island.