The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-04
CARNEGIE HERO COMMISSION MEETS FIFTY PERSONS WERE AWARD. ED FOR ACTS OF BRAVERY;
 22 FROM OHIO.
M. Woods of Athens, Ohio, Was Awarded Silver Medal and Reim-
 bursed for s1.ooo That He Lost.

Pittsburg, Nov. 3.-With the regu- lar fall meeting of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today, came the re- warding of fifty persons for acts of bravery and illustrious conduct. With the exception of one award, made to a citizen of Canada the entire list of persons remembered by the Carne- gie commission, are residents of the United States, twenty-two being per. sons living in Ohio.
 Approximately $3S,soO, twenty-three silver and twentyseven bronze med als were awarded by the action of to- days meeting of the commission. Of the fifty heroic acts approved, four teen of the persons responsible for them met their death. In these cases next of kin received the awards.
 Deeds of henoism during the flood at Athens, Ohio. on March IA. 1907. received the greater part of the atten- ton of the commission. The acts Of courage brought to the attention of the commission included saving chil- dren from fast running passenger trains, rescues from raging flood riv- CTS, stopping unmanageable runaway horses and carrying persons from buriing buildings.
 Prominent among the awards and probably the most spectacular act of bravery called to the attention of the commission was the case of Haley NJ. Woods, a merchant of Athens, Ohio. during the floods of the Rocking river in March, 1907. Woods, unasslsred. rescued two men and woman from almost certain death when he rowed a nat bottomed skiff through a wild running river current into the second story window of half submerged house. carrying his rescued fellow citi. zens to shore in safety.
 In investigating the case of Woods. the commission found that he WAS in debt in excess of $1,000 for his small store and presented him with a check Tor Sl,O0O and a silver medal.
 Several other cases of bravery dur. ing the Athens flood were also award. ed suitably.
 A particularly worthy award was the case of George E. McCue, colored at Garden City, Kans., whose heroic act in rescuing baby from in front of a fast traveling passenger train was brought to the attention of the commission by city officials of the town where McCue lived.
 A mother had left a 2-year-old child strapped in a baby buggy in front of the depot and express office. Wind blew the baby buggy upon the rail road tracks. overturning the vehicle. The strap held the infant in the car riage McCue saw the overturned ve- hicle, but did not see the baby. A passenger train running close to sixty miles an hour was approaching.
 McCne ran down the track about half way to the baby carriage and saw that 1t contained an infant. He re. doubled his speed, reaching the vehi- cle in time to throw it from the right cf way with mighty effort. and lust cleared the pilot of the engine as the train sped past the depot. McCue was given bronze medal for his act and $500 for educational purposes. he having expressed desire to attenr an industrial school for colored men.
 In each of the fifty awards, human interest story of real feroism Is told. One hundred and six applications for medals were considered by the com. mission at today's meeting.
 Among the persons recognized by the commission are:
 J. C. Stewart. BlanKet, Texas; Mrs.