Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-17
CARNEGIE HERO FUND
MEDALS AND MONEY AWARDED
By connIss1oH.

The Carnegie hero fund commission at
Its meeting in Pittsburg yesterday awarded
twenty-one medals and money Resolu-
| tons were passed upon the death OF Will
Ham Scott. one of the commission mem
bers. and to all vacancies caused by
Mr.. SCOTS death and the resignation of E.
H. Anderson. Taylor Alderdice and Albert
]. Barr were elected. 1t is expected the
medals viii be ready for distribution about
July 1.
The awards made are:
To the widow of Michael Gfsmondi of
Mount Pleasant, Pa. silver medal and
death benefits amounting to $780, Gis-
mondi lost his life while trying to rescue
fourteen-year-old boy who was over
come by gas In an unfinished well In Sep
temf,er, 1908.
A silver medal and S1,20O to Hquidate In
debtedness on his property was awarded
William Watkins coal miner of Ed
wardsviile. Pa. for rescuing three miners
from death by gas in an explosion in the
Kingston Coal Company's mines In Sep
TENDER, 1904
A medal and a like sum for the same pur-
pose to Timothy e. Heagerty, a lake plot
of Ashtabula, Ohio. who. in April. 1908,
rescued the captain and crew of the
schooner Yukon in a gale on Lake Erie.
bronze medal and $500 to Robert w.
Simpson, engineer of the tug of which
Heagerty was pilot. This award Is made
In connection with the same rescue
Michael Sasso. the fireman, also of Ash
tabula, Ohio. Is given a bronze medal and
$500.
Michael P. OBrien of 1887 Lexington ave-
hue, New York city. a silver medal for
rescuing a mother and two children from
burning building in May, 1904.
George B. Williams of Elizabeth Pa,
in October, 1904, lost his life In trying to
rescue a man from electric cables which
were burning him to death A silver medal
is awarded to his sister.
LUCY r. Ernst of cJ2l North afh street
Philadelphia, silver medal for saving the
life OF Harry E. Schoenhut by heroic treat
ment of rattlesnake bite In July. 1905.
A silver medal to Walter H. Murbach of
Ilyria. Ohio, for the rescue of thirteen
year-old schoolboy from drowning.
bronze medal and $1,000 death benefits
to the widow of Henry Stuchal of Unity
township, Westmoreland county, Pa, who
lost his life in an attempt to rescue two
laborers from drowning in June, 1904.
James w. Gilmer of Charleroi,N Pa, was
drowned while trying to rescue COM
panion on tugboat In the Monongahela
river, and bronze medal and 500 death
benefits are awarded his father.
Harry E. Moore. railroad conductor, of
Alliance, Ohio, lost part of his arm in try
Ing to rescue a man who had fallen asleep
on the track, and he was awarded bronze
| medal and disablement benefits CT $500.
John Delo of Oil City. Pa, a bronze medal
and disablement benefits of $500. He suf-
fered a fractured skull In January, 1905
he had climbed to rescue a fellow-workman
who had come in contact with live wire.
Therese S. Mentally, thirteen-year- old
school girl Of Waterbury, Conn, bronze
medal and 5000 for her education for res
cuing four-year-old child from drowning
at Woodmont IN June, 1904.
bronze medal and s., 600 for educational
purposes to fifteen-year-old Daniel ]. Cur
| tin of 332 East Goth street, New York. for
rescuing two young girls from the East
river In August. 1905.
William L. Wolff of Camden, N. j., res
cued two men from drowning in September
1905, and is awarded a bronze medal and
$500.
A bronze medal and $500 to Richard \
Hughes of Bangor, Pa. for rescuing a fell
low-workman whose clothing had caught
fire in an explosion.
Edward H Campbell of Buena Vista, Pa,
rescued two young men from drowning
in August. 1904, and is awarded a bronze
medal
William ]. Wild of 1856 West 25th street
Cleveland, Ohio. a bronze medal for his
rescue of several men from a burning car
In the wreck at Clifton station, in March,
1905
Charles A. Swenson of Brooklyn, N. Y,
bronze medal for the rescue of a de-
mented man who had jumped from a ferry
boat off Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, in Sep
TENDER, 1905.
A bronze medal to Edward Murray a
yard conductor of Pittsburg, who rescued
two children from in front OF locomotive
in January, 1906.