The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-06-13
CARNEGIE HERO FUND
MAKES MANY AWARDS
TWenty-six Medals and $10,500
Bestowed For Bravery.
DANNY CURTINs NERvy ACT
He Saved Two Girls Will Get Med
al and $4,000 Unique Case of
Girl Who Sucked Rattiesnake
Poison From WOUND.

Poison From a WounS.
Pittsburg, Pa. medals
and S10,500 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 2922 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, to whom a silver medal
was awarded for sucking the poison
from a rattlesnake bite inflicted on
Harry E. Schoenhut, of Philadelphia
July 8, 1905.
Charles A Swenson, of No. SO Allan
tic avenue, Brooklyn. receives a bronze
medal for saving the life of Gustav
Herb, of Brooklyn, on November 3,
1905. Herb, while intoxicated. jumped
from q boat off Atlantic avenue. Brook
lyn. and Swenson saved him at great
risk to his own life.
Daniel E. Curtin. of No. 332 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 of East
Seventieth street, New York. and saved
Hulda Johnston and Hilda Elg 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 1t for
his education.
Michael P. O'Brien. Of No. 1887 Lex
ington avenue. New York, got a silver
medal for saving Mrs. Bessie Eyl and
two children from death by fire May
ID. 1904. at Third avenue and 10th
street. New York. The rescue was
from the fourth story of tenement
house.
Therese S. NIcNally, a. thirteen-year-
old girl, of Waterbury. Conn.,, received
a bronze medal and $4,000 for her edu-
cation, for rescung Loretto Merwin,
a four-year-old child. from drowning at
Woodmont, Conn. June 1G, 1904. The
act was one of exceptional bravery.
Miss McNally is an orphan, living with
her grandmother. She is to get S4OO
q year for her education.
A 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 a 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. a 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, q
lake pilot Of Ashtabula, Ohio. who in
April, 1905, rescued the captain and
Gew of the schooner Yukon in 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
death. Williams was knocked from
a bridge and factured his skull. A sill
yer medal is awarded his sister.
A silver medal is given to Walter n.
Murbach. of Elyria. Ohio, for the res
cue of a 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 Ia
borers from drowning in June, 1904.
Harry E. Moore, railroad conduc-
tor, of Alliance. Ohio, lost part Of his
arm in trying to rescue man who had
fallen asleep on the track, and he re-
ceived bronze medal and disablement
benefits Of $500.
John Delo, of Oil City, Pa. received
a bronze medal and disablement bene-
fits of $500. He suffered a fractured
skull in January. 1906, by 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 Y. Hughes, Of Bangor,
Pa, for rescuing 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. Of No. 3sj5 West
Twenty-fifth street. Cleveland, Ohio.
gets q bronze medal for the rescue of
several men from burning car in 4
wreck at Clifton Station in March. 1908.
A bronze medal is awarded to Ed
ward Murray. a yard conductor, of
Pittsburg, who rescued two children
from in front of a locomotive, in Janu-
ary, 1906.
Special mention is made in the COM
missions report of aStS Of heroism in
San Francisco following the earthquake
and fire disaster.
Copper Company's Big Earnings.