The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-19
IOWA HEROES GET
CARNEGIE MEDALS
Report Of Fund Commission Just 10.
sued Shows That Seven Iowa
Persons Have Been Re
warded for Bravery.
WERE ALL LIFE SAVERS
Endowment Given Widows of Some
Who Lost Their LIves-The Iowa
List Furnishes Much
Of Interest.

lOul " oou PEI SOAS W WuOIu Tie CdT-
negie hero fund commission has
awarded medals and other rewards
for brave acts in saving human life,
seven are Iowans, according to the
report by the commission which has
Just been issued. The commission
has granted 336 pensions, medals,
ETC., and has rejected 3,4s4 applica-
tions or claims on account of extra
ordinary acts Of bravery. Now 731
cases are pending The commission
has awarded thirteen gold medals,
14S silver and ITS bronze medals. 1t
has awarded to heroes and their de-
pendents s24S,40G54 and has given
s134,462.0G to funds for the relief OF
sufferers in disasters. The commits.
sion began business in 1904. The fol
lowing are the Iowa people who have
been recognized:
Charles w. Weld, aged 81, salesman,
saved J. Chase Harbaugh, aged 20,
park attendant, from drowning Wa.
terloo. Iowa, Aug. /, 1908. Yields
arms were pinioned and he was drag
ged under water when he went to Har.
baugh's assistance in the Cedar river
but he freed himself and arose, and
as Harbaugh came up, swan toward
him. Harbaugh sank again and when
he reappeared, Weld seized him and
swan with him twenty-five feet to
shallow water. Weld was nearly ex
hausted and Harbaugh was uncon
scious. Given a bronze medal
Frank B. Weik, aged 81, school
teacher, saved Charles 7. Fisher aged
40, clergyman, Olive NJ. McCalley
aged IA, and Cora B. Butterfeld, aged
II, from burning, Walker, Iowa; Nov
!, 1908. A gasoline tank exploded in
the vestlbule of small church, the
building took fire. and Fishers cloth
Ing was spattered with gasoline, and
ignited. He ran to the front of the
auditorium, where Weili and the two
girls were. Weik extingaished the
flames on Fisher by smothering them
with his coat and cotton curtain
ard by tearing OFF parts of the burn
Ing clothing. He then broke window
escape throughythe door being GU,
off by f1ames-and Fisher climbed
out The girls, panic stricken, had
failed In an attempt to open a win
dow at the opposite side of the room
and going to them. Weik broke tho
window through which they and he
escaped. Weik sustained slight burns
OF right hand, face and ears. AL
the others sustained burns. Given {
bronze medal and $4,000 for education
al purposes as needed.
John Schwendinger, aged AZ, clerl
died attempting to save Louis j. Traut
aged 90, machinist, from drowning
Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. g. 1908. Traut
who could not swim, got into water
beyond his depth, while bathing in the
Mississippi river Schwendingel
swan to him, but was grabbed around
the arms and shoulders, and could no
release himself Both were drowned
Given silver medal and $50 month
Tor support of widow, during her life
or until she remarries, with SIS ;
month additional for each of sever
children until each reaches age of 16
William A. Schneider, aged 3S
blacksmith saved Marian Sturgis
aged is. from drowning, Hazeltown
Iowa, July "a, 1906. Schneider wen
TO the assistance Of Miss Sturgis, VIII,
mad become panic-stricken while bath
ing IN Otter creek. twenty feet from
the bank, where the water was tel
leet deep. He was forced under tn,
water by being grabbed around tn,
neck and head, but after brief strug
gle he succeeded in getting her t,
shallow water Given bronze med
al and s1,100 to be applied to the liz
uidation of his debts.
silas M. E. Dennis, aged 81, ca
checker, saved Ruth r. Bollich. aget
), from being rnn over by train, OF
turnwa, Iowa, Jan. 20, 1907. Dennis
Jumped in front of moving car
placed his feet upon the brake beam