The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-01
MEDALS GIVEN TO
AMERICAN HEROES
Deeds of Every Day Pluck Re-
Warded by the Carnegie
Hero Commission.
KENTUCklAN LEADS LIST
BRAVERY OF CHERRY MINE RES
cuERs Is NOT FORGOTTEN
LIVING AND DEAD REAP JUST
As THEY soWED.
KENTUCKIAN LEADS LIST

Pittsburg, Nov. The Carnegie
Hero Fund commission last night an
nounced 58 awards, the largest num-
Der ever handed won There were Is
bronze medals, 80 silver medals and
$40. $50 disposed of Ia the awards q
the day.
The yearly pensions awarded total
$10,380 per year, and the awards
stretch from Southern California to
the Atlantic coast. Thirteen who
took part in rescue work at the ILL
fated Cherry. ILL.,. mine disaster. No
vember Is. 1909, are. among those
crowned as heroes.
l. Wood Miller, aged 81, lveryman,
Waterford, KY, saved John H. Eggen,
Jr., aged %, painter, from drowning
at Taylorsport, KY, February %.
1909. In darkness Miller, wearing rub
ber boots, swan 1856 feet in the rush
ing food waters OF Brashear's creek
to the corner of picket fence ii feet
from lamp post to which Eggen was
clinging. Standing on the top fence
rail he broke of a section Of the
fence and swung it around to Eggen
who missed it.
Stuck DoosedIy To Il.
Then he grasped a plank to extend
but 1t was swept from him. He broke
off another section Of the fence and
as he swung it out Eggen dropped on
his chest upon it, and Miller did like.
wise, keeping his feet on another float
ing section. They were carried 135
feet to a tree
Eggen grasped the tree, and Miller
pushed him up on 1t, and then SWAN
rs feet to house and securing a
rope one end of which was held at the
house, swan back with difficulty to
Eggen, and grasping Eggen's hand,
was pulled to the house with him.
Miller received q silver medal and
81, 900 toward the purchase Of a farm.
John III. Thompson. q locomotive
fireman living at Ashtabula, O., re-
ceiyed recognition for his saving Jas
H. Ray, an engineer, from drowning
at Rock Point, Beaver. Pa, March 1,
1910. After his right wrist had been
badly sprained and his back injured
when his locomotive plunged into the
Beaver river which was swollen and
in which the ice was running fast
Thompson swan out Is feet to Ray,
who had three broken ribs. and towed
him into shore. Thompson is award
ed bronze medal and $1,000 to pur.
chase a home
Black Man With = White Heart.
James L. Smith colored puddler
at Sistersville, is rewarded for his
heroic saving Of Francis r. Hetrick
aged 2. from burning to death Octo.
Der 2s. 1909. Breaking away from men
who tried to restrain him, Smith
crawled through a door. under blaze
OF heat and smoke and occasional
flames, and into the hall of a burning
cottage and then entered the living
room, which was 50 dense with smoke
that it could not be entered through
the windows, found the child and
ging it outside, collapsed He soon
revived.
His hands and arms and the back
of his head were burned, disabling
him for two days. The child was nm
injured The Hero Commission
awards Smith silver medal and
81 900 to purchase q farm.
The mine disaster at Cherry, Ill
IN November. 1909. Agures promin
emily in the hero list with the recogni
tion Of the heruism Of Is miners. Ele
ven or these died from injuries IN res
cuing an unknown number Of miners
and besides silver medals, monthly
stipends were made to the families II
these cases Two that survived were
awarded the silver medal and $1,000
leach.