New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-17

et+tsburg Oct 1s.-The Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission made public this evening the result
of its investigation Of a large NUMBER OF cases
which were supposed to enttle the participants 10
recognition under the hero fund provided by An
drew Carnegie several years ago. Ten awards
we're made as follows: -
DanfeI Davis a coal miner, of SherodsVfHe,
Ohio lost his life in the rescue of his brother-in
I1 yyiuiann Monroe For his herosm the com
mission awarded wife silver medal ana Sl,ooo
IN be devoted to the purchase OF nome OF 70 De
applied in any other manner for the support ol
herself and two children. On July II, lS04 Wlllialh
Monroe having charge of the steam and electric
pumps of the Somers Mining Company IN the
SberodsyilIe Ohio. section, was overcome by gas
IN the Old Slope Mine, and Davis IN spite OF
warnings attempted rescue Monroe was saved
but Davis could not ne Testureu 10 coisVlo'Slle9'
when brought out.
vroda H Plummer aged fifteen, May I. 1904. on
T1,nch's River near Lamar, S. C., saved com
RAMON John NJ. Gibson from drowning, after a
desnerate struggle. The commission awarded him
silver medal and $500. to be devoted to his edu-
cation
silver medal was awarded to Michael A Doyle.
o shin Iaborer, of Quebec. On April Is, 1904 Miss
Charlotte De Kastner, aged seventeen, student
attempted suicide by jumping into the ST Law
o,oe The water was filed with floating ice.
Dovle plunged after the girl. and both were pulled
ashore by a rope thrown to Doyle
Miss Maud Titus. sixteen years old student OF
Newark n j.. will receive silver medal in rec
osoitinu Of her action in saving from drowning
Miss Laura v Reifsnyder a music teacher, of
East Orange n J. On July 80, 1901 when return
jne from cruise on Casco Bay. Yarmouth,
Me they were thrown into deep water by the up
setting of their boat Miss Reifsnyder could not
su,in and Miss Titus supported her until help came
from shore.
Mrs Sadie I. Crabbe of Cooper's Landing. Va,
lost her life on February H. 1905 while attempting
70 save from drowning Ralph Young colored, a
Iaborer. Mrs. Crabbe leaves her husband, Charles,
q son nine years old and three small daughters.
The family is very poor. The commission awarded
a bronze medal and appropriated $1,000 to be ex-
nended by the executive committee it thinks
hest for the children.
Miss Anna Margaret Cunningham twenty years
o,5 . nurse at the Savannah Hospital Savannah
"a will receive bronze medal for her part in the
Tenn, to save from drowning May 26 1So5
walker Cults twenty years old an attorney of
Savannah.
The commission awarded bronze medal to Will
lam @ Brune. seventeen years old laborer of
sandusl,y. Ohio for saving from drowning George
p pfanner nine years old on July s. 1904
Arthur J. CIottscbaIk. twenty-four years old. a
s+oralzeeper of Lancaster. n. Y. will receive
bronze medal for saving the life of Mrs Joseph
webster. of Detroit. who fell from the Crystal
Reach Company's pier at BERTHE, Welland County.
Ontario. on July s. 1904
George F Russell, aged twenty-four. ship litter,
Of C;roton. Conn will receive bronze medal for
saving the lives of three schoolboys whose boat
unset off Ne7y-Iondon. Conn, on July g. lSo+
Arthur A Ross. hatmaker OF toXDoro MASS
will receive a bronze medal for saving the lVes OF
three Tersons who on April 49, 1903, We're thrown
into mill nond when the horse attached TO their
carriage went the bank