Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-03

cult than it sounds, and the pair went
clear under water while making the
change. Then using only his badly
injured hand he swan to shore with
his engineer.
Refuses Title of Hero.
Thompson demurs at being called a
hero, confessing that when he and
Ray went under water in making that
change in hand holds, the thought
came to him What a fool man is to
drown and leave a family just to save
another man." The commission, how
| ever. will insist on Thompson accept
ing a bronze medal and 81. 1000 to be
applied toward the purchase of
| home
/ One of the young heroes in the last
awards of the Carnegie commission is
| Herbert L. Hesse, a sixteen-year-old
schoolboy of Whitehall, Mich. He set
out to save one person and found that
he had saved two.
Hesse with his sister had been
bathing in Duck lake. They had gone
| to their lighthouses and had finished
| dressing when commotion was heard
| from the lake. Herbert saw young
| woman who proved to be Miss Elsie G.
Breytsprask of Chicago apparently
| drowning about 100 feet from shore,
| and he dashed into the water after
| her
i The girl had disappeared by the
| time he reached there. Reaching un-
der water he grasped her by her right
arm, and raising her head began to
swim to shore with her.
She was SO heavy that he was pulled
almost under water as he swan.
Finally he reached comparatively shall
low water where Miss Hesse, his sis
ter, stood with an oar extended and
helped him. What was the surprise
of young Hesse in pulling his uncon-
scious burden from the water to find
that with her left hand she held tight
ly to another woman also unconscious.
She proved to be Mrs. Carrie E.
Krause of Chicago, sister of Miss
Breytsprask, who had gone down with
her in the water, but HeAe knew
nothing of it.
Bronze Medal and $1,000.
Hesse weighed 12O pounds while the
combined weight of the women res
cued was 2O4 pounds. The commits
sion has awarded the lad bronze
medal and will allow him 81 900 for
i, educational purposes to be used as
needed.
At Carbondale, Pa, on the evening
/. of July 1, 1908, Jesse Dunlap, a freight
conductor of the New York, Ontario
& Western railroad, reached from the
pilot of his running engine and saved
; a child of two years named Francis
Walker, who had toddled between the
rails. The youngster, who weighed
t about thirty pounds, was not hurt
Dunlap lost his hold on the front OF
/, the engine, and was thrown to one
: side as he picked up the child. The
) Iengine at the time 1t reached the child
: was running about five miles an hour
Dunlap had been riding on the run
5 ming board of his OVID engine, and
/ when he saw the child pa the track
1 and felt the engineer trying to STOP
5 the locomotive he ran down on the
t cowcatcher and, holding to some part
: of the engine with his left hand, he
e placed his foot on the circular foot
. step on the cowcatcher rim and lean
t ing down scooped the child up. Dun
lap is given a bronze medal and $500
e with which to 1iquidate Indebtedness
/, Brave Seventeen-Year-OIdG Girl.
e A severteen-year-old girl of Halsey
j Valley, N Y, Gertrude Sharpsteen By
name, is given a silver medal and $500
: to be used for any worthy purpose be
n cause of her saving from death hel
) four-year-old niece Gertrude Downey
# August 81, 1909. The young lady wal
o visiting her sister and had taken lit
g tie Gertrude out for a walk.
The little one left her after tins
and was about to cross the tracks o
l. the Lehigh Valley railroad when fas
S train, running at the rate of 40 mile
II an hour, rounded a curve about 25
feet away. Miss Sharpsteen screame'
e to the child to come back, but the lit
e tie one either did not hear or did no
heed, and kept on her way. Mis-
o Sharpsteen dashed on to the tracks
d and hurled the child to one side.
Before she could get of. the track
the engine struck her, and hurled he
e heels over head through the air. He
le right arm was found to be badly tr
n jured and probably will never be @
n full use to her again, and she SUI
O. tanned other injuries
n James L. Smith, a negro puddler. a
lie great risk of his own life saved tina
70 of Francis R. Hetrick, white chill
Is of two years. who had been left in
~ burning house at Sistersville, w. Va
D. The mother of the babe on her a
70 rival from the store found her hous
"a in flames and cried that her child wa
u inside She could not tell in whic
N room 1T had been left, but Smith an
I'd another man got into the hous
e through windows and searched all br
one great living room By this tim
r. the inside of the house was mass
l.