New-York tribune., 1909-11-04
CARNEGIE AW ARDS
HONOR FIFTY HEROES
Com mission Distributes S,33 900
Ohio FarOrcd.

Pittsburg. Nov. s.-The Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission rewarded fifty persons
throughout this country and Canada to-day
for acts of bravery called TO the attention
Of the commission in the last three months,
One award went TO Canada Twenty-Five
went TO persons living in Ohio.
approximately. s3. 600. twenty-thTee sill
Yer and twenty-seven bronze medals We're
awarded. or the fifty heroic acts approved
fourteen OF the persons responsible for them
met their death. In these cases next of kin
received the award.
Deeds OF heroism in the food at Athens,
Ohio, on March IL. 1907. received large
part of the attention OF the commission.
The acts of courage included saving chill
dren from fast running passenger trains,
rescues from flood rivers. stopping unman-
ageable runaway horses and carrying per-
sons from burning buildings.
Prominent among the awards was the
case of HALEY NJ. Woods a merchant. of
Athens, Ohio, and an expert swimmer.
During the floods of the Hooking ISiver in
March. 1907, Woods, unassisted. rescued
two men and a woman from almost certain
death. when he rowed a fiat bottomeI skics
through a wild running river into the sec
story window of half submerged house.
carrying his rescued fellow citizens to shore
and safety. Woods gets 900 and silver
medal
William F. Sayle. of North Attleboro.
Mass, a ffteen-year-old boy. unassisted
and heavily dressed, jumped into hole in
the ice and buoyed up boy and a girl
until assistance came Sayle refused aid
himself until tho couple had been taken
from the ice hole and were on their way to
safety.
George f. McCue. a negro. OF Garden
City, Kan, got a bronze medal and 500
for educational purposes. A mother had
left two-year-old child strapped in baby
carriage in front of railroad station. The
wind blew the buggy onto the tracks. over
turning the vehicle. The strap held the in
fant in the carriage. McCue saw the over
turned carriage, but did not the baby.
A passenger train. running sixty miles an
hour, was approa ching. McCue ran down
the track and about half way 10 the baby
carriage saw that it contained an infant.
He redoubled his speed. reaching the vehi-
Gle in time to throw it from the track. He
just cleared the pilot of the engine the
heavy train sped past.
While the Arcadia, a freight steamer,
plying between Hamburg and Philadelphia,
was being unloaded Philadelphia in June.
1908. an explosion in the cargo occurred
Most Of the steveoores working below decks
were knocked down and bruised. some
being burned. Many of the workers de-
serted the ship. William NJ. Edwards n
'longshoreman, volunteered to attempt the
rescue Of the imprisoned man. Tying a
rope to a lighter he slid into the burning
hold. but could find nothing. Hearing
groans he deserted his guide rope and after
long search found Lucius Hubbard. a
negro, whom he brought TO safety. A sill
yer medal was given 10 Edwards, with
$1,000.
In each OF the fifty awards human in
terest story of real heroism is told. One
hundred and six applicants for medals and
monetary reward were considered by the
commission at to-day's meeting, but only
even half hundred were successful
Among the persons recognized by the
commission were Theodore III. Homer (col-
ored), Philadelphia; W. F. Sayle. North
Attleboro. Mass: John +. Conroy. South
Boston. Mass: T. j. Madden. Thomaston,
Conn; A. X. Sweet (coloredD. Norwood
r. l.; Robert Dowling. Brooklyn: r. II
Reeder. Bordentown. y. j.; F. f. Foss
(deadD, Fall River. Mass; Bertha Ratten-
bury. Charlottetown. T. Z. l.; ri. l.. Mitch
ell (dead), Plymouth. Conn, and Michael
Donlon dead, Meriden. Conn.