Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-07
MORE CARNEGIE
HEROES H0N0RED
FUND COMMISSION ANNOUNCES
TWENTY-THREE AWARDS AT
ANNUAL MEETING.
MEDALS AND CASH ARE GIVEN.
Bronze and Silver Designs, $4,000 in
Cash and Annuities of $125
Month Provided.

lar quarterly meeting here yesterday,
made awards to twenty-three persons in
different parts of this country for deeds
of heroism considered since the last
meeting. The awards consist of sixteen
bronze and seven silver medals, $4,000
i'll cash, and annuitles amounting to $40
Il month
The commission also appropriated S1O,-
900 to the relief fund for the relatives
of the III victims of the two mine expio-
sions at the Lick branch mine OF the Po-
cahontaS Consolidated COlliery company
at SWitchback. w. Va, on December
20, 1908, and January II, 1909. Forty
nine cases were submitted to the com
mission today.
The awards made follow:
John ]. ZangerIe, Buffalo, bronze medal.
On August s. 1904, he stopped runaway
horse attached to a buggy in which was
.hlld years old.
bronze medal and $1,000 toward purchase OF
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engineer, saw
William c. Fleming, boy of : years,
crawling across the track in front of has
train. He went through his cab window to-
the pilot, where he seized the boy
John c. Scureman, West Pittston, "a,
bronze medal and $3.50 to liquidate his III,
1ebtedness. On March "a, 1907, he rescued
Karl A. Kellar, IL years old, who mac
grasped a live wire scureman came III III
manently injured.
John FaIter, Columbus, O., bronze medal
On January 81, 1908, he rescued Harry NC
Cune, 10 years old, who had broken through
ice while skating.
Henry Herwig, Sharon, Pa. bronze medal
and $1,000 toward purchase of a home. ON
April u, 1908, he plunged into the ShehanSo
liver and rescued Louis Il. Armstrong.
Charles f Meyer, New York city, bronze
medal and $500 for disablement dement's; Oh
April 3, 1908, Misses Roslyn and Bessie MOI,
ris were entangled in the Wreckage OF an
automobile With a ten-gallon tank OF gas
cline about to be ignited, Meyer rescued
one of the girls and was about to release
the other when an explosion hurled MN 10
Eugene P Heinze, Cleveland, captain in
the Salvation Army, bronze medal On Au-
gust g. 1908, he rescued Miss Dena NJ
Schmidt, also of the Salvation Army, from
drowning at Beulah Beach on Lake Ere
Henry E. Weckbecker, Sharpsburg, Ia
bronze medal and $1,000; on July IA, A., lS So
he dived into the Allegheny river and res
cued Anthony j. Hensel, IT years ola, WHO
TgederieF ~ Miller i'll Rnsh mor sEon7e
years, from drowning on April "a 1905
after Maloney had been swept over dam
Frederick W. weiher, Braddock, Pa
bronze medal for rescuing II, ZaGaria lar 4;
Dimpsey, aged 63 years OF o Wai 5+ ra:ib t on
Dimpsey had fallen after setting on
charge of dynamite at the bottom of the
Patrick H. Fitzpatrick, southbridge,
Mass, bronze medal and $1,000 to liquidate
a mortgage On May %, 1905 he rescued
from drowning S in the Quinebaugh river,
after she had jumped into the stream with
suicidal intent.
Y. bronze medal and $1,000 for educational
purposes. She saved Miss Nellie Rathbun
of Canandaigua from drowning on August
30, 1908.
John w Ely, Point Marion, Pa, bronze
medal and $1,000 toward the restoration OF
his health. On December g. 1908, he res
cued Edward and George johnson of Cheat
Haven, Pa, from drowning In the Cheat
river.
Pierce D. Marsh, engineman, Weston, w
Va silver medal and $1,000 TO pay mort
gage for preventing possible wreck on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad on June 20, 1907,
between passenger train OF which in. he MAS MAS
freight broke loose at the top of grade
as the passenger train was ascending the
grade. Marsh, remaining at his post,
backed his train down at such a speed that
when the freight struck it the impact was
slight
medal and $1,000 toward the restoration of
his health. He jumped, fully clad, into
fore-bay at the plant of the Wilson Elec-
trio company at Alexandria, Pa, September
81 1908, knowing there were three tur-
bines in the fore-bay, which might suck
him beneath the surface and saved do Miss hsd
0Ialfe McSduley VI IHIlduelpAldS "hO hoN
fallen into the water
John A Koontz, Philo, O., bronze medal,
He spent fifteen minutes IN, IN icy water, Jan
schager, II years old, when she and com
panion broke through the ice.
Anita G. Cone, 81 years old, Raleigh, Fla.
silver medal for rushing into a burning
building May 5, 1909, and rescuing Evaline
Smith. co!ored, months old, whose cloth
Harriet L. O'Connor. Southampton, Mass,
widow of Patrick O'Connor, awarded sill
yer medal and death benefits at the rate of
$50 month till she remarries or dies, with
So month additional for each child under
16 years old dependent upon her. O'Con-
nor lost his life in an attempt to save An
had broken through the ice while skating
on Mill river. Northampton, Mass.
J. T. A. Lautenschlager, Philo. O.. father
bronze medal and death benefits in the
sum of $3.50 When Miss Leah Lauten-
schlager, sister of Lehman, and Miss Bar
through the ice while skating January 8,
1908. Lautenschlager and John koontz
Lautenschlager. but Lehman LautenschIa-
ger and Miss Kussmul were drowned.
Robert c. Baur, Richmond, Va, silver
medal and $1,000 toward purchase of home.
On January s, 1908, he got into boat,
which was let over the Falls of the James,
in James river, Richmond, in an effort to
save Edward L. Barnes, who While lntoxl-
Gated had gone over the dam and lodged on
a rock.
Elizabeth f. MCGEE, Hoskinsville, o.,
mother of Irwin r: MCGEE, awarded silver
medal. $500 to liquidate mortgage and SO
a month during life or until she remarries.
Irwin r. MCGEE was suffocated in a well
where he had volunteered to go when 9th
ers refused, for the purpose of rescuing
WilIies E. Leonard, overcome by gas
SalIie R. Dillinger, Pottsville, Pa, widow
of Jonathan Dillinger, silver medal and $5U
a month during her life or till she remar
ries, with So month additional for her
daughter till she is 16 years old. Jonathan
Dnlinger on January %, 1909. rushed in
front of a moving train at Pottstown, Pa,
and showed Mrs. Mary E. Gruff, 60 years
old and slightly deaf, from the track. Her
legs were cut off, but her life was saved.
Dillinger was killed.