Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-23
BATCH OF CARNEGIE HEROES
No One From the Pacific Coast In
the Latest Awards of the
Commission
Special to The Herald.

commission
Special to The Herald.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 22.-The Carnegie
Hero Fund commission held a meeting
today and made ten awards, as follows:
Maude Titus, aged sixteen, of New
ark N j., high school girl, for saving
lives July 80, 1904 in Casco bay, near
Yarmouth, Me- She was one of a party
of ten on the yacht of Capt Burgess
of Boston. Miss Titus rsked her life
to save that of Miss Laura V. Reif-
snyder Of East Orange, N. j., who was
thrown into the water, but could not
| swim. She was given silver medal.
Charles Crabbe of Coppers' Landing,
| Va, was given a bronze medal and
$1,000 to educate his children. Mrs. Sa-
die L. Crabbe lost her life in the Great
Wtcomico river Feb. II, 1905, while try
Ing to save a colored boy, Ralph
Young, from drowning.
| Miss Anna Margaret Cunningham,
! aged twenty, nurse in the Savannah
(Ga.) hospital, is given a bronze medal
for saving the life of Edwin w. Cub
bage, jr., May rs, 1905, at Savannah.
Miss Cunningham almost lost her life
trying to save Walker Cults at the
same time.
| William c. Bruno, seventeen, of San
dusky, O., is given a bronze medal fol
saving the life of George P. Pfanner,
| aged nine, on July 8, 1904. The boy
was swimming astride plank when a
large dog playing in the water caught
the plank in his teeth and pulled it
from under the lad.
Arthur j. Gottschalk, aged twenty
four, of Lancaster, N. Y, is given a
bronze medal for saving the life of Mrs.
Joseph Webster of Detroit, Mich, July
g. 1904. The woman took a fit while
on the pier of the Crystal Beach COM
pany, opposite Buffalo, and fell into
the water. Gottschalk was with young
lady in canoe. He padded near the
| shore, let the young lady out, and went
to save Mrs Webster, who overturned
his canoe and almost drowned him.
At the risk of his life he held the
woman above water until help came.
George F. Russell, a ship filter, aged
twenty-four, of Groten, Conn, was
awarded a bronze medal for rescuing
Paul F. Winslow, aged fourteen, and
Frank G. Baer from drowning in LONG
Island sound, off New London, Conn
July 29, 1904. The lads had been pre-
cipitated into the water, and when
Russell went to save them they both
grasped him by the neck. Russell ha6
to swim some distance with the two
boys.
Arthur A. Ross, aged twenty-three
of Foxboro. Mass, was awarded a
bronze medal for saving the lives OF
Nellie T. Welsh, aged seventeen, who
had been thrown into swift running
stream.
Mrs. Daniel Davis of Cleveland is
given silver medal and $1,000 to edu-
cate her children. Her husband or
! July II. 1904. lost his life trying to saw
J William Monroe, miner, who had beer
J overcome in shaft of the Somers Min.
; ing company, at Sherodsville, o.
Wade H. Plummer, aged fifteen, OF
Lamar, S. c., was awarded a silver
medal and 5000 to complete his educa-
tion, He saved the lives of two COM
panions who were thrown into the
water with him May T. 1904, in Lynch's
river.
Michael A. Doyle of Quebec was
awarded a silver medal for saving the
life of Miss Charlotte L. De Castner
aged seventeen, who had jumped into
the st. Lawrence river, which was
filld with floating ice
This makes nineteen awards by the
Carnegie commission up to date. The
commission has refused 291 cases and
have 289 under consideration.