The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22
CARNEGIE HERO FUND
MAKES MANY AWARDS
Twenty-six Medals and $10,500
Bestowed For Bravery.
DANNY cURTINS Merry ACT
He Saved Two Girls Will Get Med
al and $4,000 Unique Case OF
Girl Who Sucked RattIesnake
Poison From a Wound.

Girl Who Sucked Rattlesnake
Poison From Wound.
Pfttsburg, Pa.-Twenty-six medals
and $1O,50O were awarded here by the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. The
most unique case ever brought to the
attention of the commission was that
of Miss Lucy e. Ernst, twenty years
old, of No 1922 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, to whom silver medal
was awarded for sucking the poison
from a rattlesnake bite inflicted on
Harry e. Schoenhut, of Philadelphia,
July s, 1905
Charles A. Swenson, of No. 80 Attain
tic avenue. Brooklyn, receives a bronze
medal for saving the life Of Gustav
Herb, of Brooklyn, on November 5.
1905 Herb, while intoxicated, jumped
from q boat off Atlantic avenue, Brook
Ign, and Swenson saved him at great
risk to his own life.
Daniel e. Curtin, of No. 1892 East Six
ty-sixth street, New York, receives a
bronze medal and $4,000 with which to
educate himself On August 81, 1905,
he plunged into the East River off East
Seventeen street, New York, and saved
Hulda Johnston and Hilda Fig from
drowning. Curtin is only fifteen years
old. The $4,000 is to be put in trust for
him. to be paid out as he needs it for
his education.
Michael p. O'Brien, of No. 1857 Lex
ington avenue, New York, got a silver
medal for saving Mrs. Bessie cyl and
two children from death by fire May
IA, 1904. at Third avenue and 10th
street. New York The rescue was
from the fourth story of tenement
house.
Therese. S. NTcNally, thirteen-year-
old girl, of Waterbury, Conn, received
bronze medal and $4,000 for her edu-
cation for rescuing Loretto Merwin,
four-year-old child, from drowning at
WoOdmont Conn, June 16, 1904. The
act was one of exceptional bravery.
Miss McNally is an orphan, living with
her grandmother. She is to get $500
year for her education.
bronze medal and $500 were
awarded to William L. Wolff, Of No.
1860 South Second street. Camden, N.
J., who, on September %. 1905, at the
risk of his own life saved Albert s.
Fossman and John. Lewis. who had
been precipitated into the water.
Other awards were:
To the widow of Michael Gismondi,
Of Mount Pleasant Pa, a silver medal
and death benefits amounting to 5000.
Gismondi lost his life while trying to
rescue fourteen-year-old boy who
was overcome by gas in an unfinished
well in September 1905.
A silver medal and $1,000 to liquidate
indebtedness on his property to Will
lam Watkins, coal miner, Of Ed
wardsville, Pa, for rescuing three
miners from death by gas in an ex-
plosion in the Kingston Coal Com
pany's mines in September, 1904.
A medal and like sum for the same
purpose to Timothy e. Heagerty, a
lake pilot Of Ashtabula, Ohio who in
April. 1905, rescued the captain and
crew Of the schooner Yukon in a gale
on Lake Erie. A bronze medal and
$500 each were given to Robert w.
Simpson, the engineer of the tug of
which Heagerty was pilot and Michael
Sasso, the fireman, both of A5htabula.
George B. Williams, of Elizabeth.
Pa, in October, 1904, lost his life in try
ing to rescue a man from electric
cables which were burning him to
bridge and featured his skull a sill
yer medal is awarded his sister.
A silver medal is given to Walter H.
Murbach, Of Elyria, Ohio, for the res
cue of thirteen-year-old schoolboy
from drowning.
A bronze medal and $1,000 death ben
efits are awarded to the widow of
Henry Stuchal, of Unity Township,
Westmoreland County, Pa, who lost
his life in an attempt to rescue two la
borers from drowning in June, 1904.
Harry e. Moore. a railroad conduc-
tor, of Alliance, Ohio, lost part of his
arm in trying to rescue a man who had
fallen asleep on the track, and he re-
ceived a bronze medal and disablement
benefits of $500.
John Delo, Of Oil City, Pa, received
bronze medal and disablement bene-
fits of $500. He suffered fractured
skull in January, 1906, by a fall from
an electric light pole which he had
climbed to rescue a fellow workman
who had come in contact with live
wire.
A bronze medal and $500 are award
ed to Richard X. Hughes, of Bangor
Pa, for resculng a fellow workman
whose clothing had caught fire in an
explosion
Edward H. Campbell, of Buena Wis
ia. Pa, rescued two young men from
drowning in August, 1904 and receives
a bronze medal.
William J. Wild, CT No. 1855 West
Twenty-ifth street, Cleveland, Ohio.
gets bronze medal for the rescue of
several men from burning ear in
wreck at Clifton Station in March, 1905.
A bronze medal is awarded to Ed
ward Murray, yard conductor, of
Pittsburg. who rescued two children
from in front of locomotive in Janu-
airy, 1906.
Special mention Is made in the COM
missions report of acts of heroism in
San Francisco following the earthquake
and fire disaster.
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