Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-11-24

nand, and asked MIN 10 cnanBe nands.
Doing this In the water Is more diff
cult than 1t 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 q
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 family just to save
another man." The commission. how
ever. will insist on Thompson accept
ing a bronze medal and 81 900 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.
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
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 Hesse knew
nothing of It.
Bronze Medal and $1,000.
Hesse weighed 120 pounds while the
combined weight of the women res
cued was 204 pounds. The commits
sion has awarded the lad bronze
medal and will allow him 1000 for
educational purposes to be used as
needed.
At Carbonate, Pa. on the evening
of July /. 1908. Jesse Dunlap, freight
conductor of the New York. Ontario
e. Western railroad, reached from the
pilot of his running engine and saved
child Of two years named Francis
Walker, who had toddled between the
rails. The youngster, who weighed
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
engine at the time II reached the child
was running about five miles an hour
Dunlap had been riding on the run
ming board of his own engine, and
when he saw the child on the track
the locomotive he ran down on the
cowcatcher and. holding to some part
of the engine with his left hand, he
placed his foot on the circular foot
step on the cowcatcher rim and lean
ing down scooped the child up. Dun
Zap is given a bronze medal and $500
with which to liquidate Indebtedness.
Brave Seventeen-Year-Old Girl.
A seventeen-year-old girl of Halsey
Valley, N. Y, Gertrude Sharpsteen by
name, is given a silver medal and $500
to be used for any worthy purpose be-
cause of her saving from death her
four-year-old niece Gertrude Downey,
August 81, 1909. The young lady was
visiting her sister and had taken lit
tie Gertrude out for a walk.
The little one left her after a time
and was about to cross the tracks Of
the Lehigh Valley railroad when a fast
train, running at the rate of 40 miles
an hour, rounded curve about $50
feet away. Miss Sharpsteen screamed
to the child to come back, but the lit
tie one either did not hear or did not
heed. and kept on her way. Miss
Sharpsteen dashed on to the tracks.
and hurled the child to one side.
Before she could get off the tracks
the engine struck her, and hurled her
heels over head through the air. Her
right arm was found to be badly in
jured and probably will never be OF
full use to her again. and she sus-
tanned other injuries.
James l.. Smith, a negro puddler, at
great risk of his own life saved that
OF Francis r. Hetrick. a white child
OF two years. who had been left In a
burning house at Sistersville, w. Va.
The mother Of the babe on her ar
rival from the store found her house
In flames and cried that her child was
inside. She could not tell In which
room II had been eft, but Smith and
another man got into the house
windows and searched all but
one great living room. BY this time
the inside OF the house was a mass of
flame and smoke, draft having been
made by the opening of windows and
doors