Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-18

succeeded in swimming with Miss
Cutlery to the protruding roots of
a submerged tree 10 feet below the
bar, to which they chung until she
was taken into a boat, % minutes
later.
Clara Hogstad. Silver medal and
81 goo, as needed. Miss Hogstad,
aged 20, stenographer, attempted to
save Joseph Schultz, aged 70, boat
keeper, from being run over by
train, Lafayette, Pa, Sept. %, 1910.
Miss Hogstad, in a weakened condi-
ton from a recent operation, ran
so feet to Schultz, who stood mo-
tionless a few inches outside the
track on which the train was ap-
preaching at a speed of 40 miles an
hour. Just as she caught his sleeve
and attempted to pull him off the
track the train struck Schultz,
knocking him against Miss Hogstad.
She was hurled IS feet and badly
bruised. Schultz was instantly
killed.
Henry S. Moore. Silver medal and
$4,000 for the education of his chill
dren as needed. Moore, aged "A,
hoist operator, saved Neil F. Camp
| bell, aged nine, from drowning,
Sydney, n. s., Feb. 7. 1911. Moore
broke through the thin ice on Sgd
| ney harbor as he crawled toward
Campbell, who, unable to swim,
| had broken through where the wa
ter was over 10 feet deep. Break
ing the ice for a distance of 5 feet,
Moore swan to Campbell, who was
beneath the surface. He caught
hold of Campbell, who by this time
was unconscious and swan to the
edge of the hole, but as he tried to
support himself the ice broke sew
eral times. Finally an overcoat was
thrown TO him and he and Campbell
were pulled 10 solid ice and out of
the hole. Moore suffered no i'll eff
fects. Campbell was revived.
Percy F.. Morrell. Silver medal
and $4,000 to liquidate his indebt-
edness. Morrell, aged 26, manager
attempted TO save Charles w. Laue
aged %, real estate dealer, from be-
ing run over by a train, New York
n. Y, Jan. 7, 1910. Jumping from
the platform down onto the track
in front of an approaching subway
train, Morrell grabbed Laue, who
stunned, lay on the track. He leap.
ed off the track, into narrow space
under the overhanging platform
dragging Laue with him, and had
him almost off the track when the
train, running Is miles an hour
reached them. Laue's foot wa.
caught and he was pulled from Nor
rell's grasp. His right leg was am
putated and his thigh fractured, bu
he recovered. Morrell escaped un
hurt.
Clark II. Presley, deceased. Silver
medal to son. Presley, aged 43
driver, died attempting to say,
Howard VI. Huseselton, aged three
from being run over by a street car
Nottingham, Ohio, Aug. 81, 1911
Presley ran to the edge of the track
and with the car only 20 feet AVA
and approaching at a speed of 8,
miles an hour, reached for the child
who sat between the rails. Befor
he could grasp the boy the ca
struck him. He was fatally injure,
and died two hours later. The chill,
was run over by the car and die,
the following day.
Canada NJ. Owen, deceased. Sill
,ver medal to husband. Mrs. Owen
aged ~. housewife. died attempting
TO rescue Emma C. and Mabel c
McLain, and Elizabeth Detfenbaugh
aged 80, l and SO respectively
from a runaway, Brashear, Texas
May 81, 1905. Mrs. Owen, with a.
uplifted chair In her hands, ran int
the road in the path of a team o
t4ules drawing a wagon containing