The Colorado statesman., 1912-06-01

| ahead or passenger train running
forty Eiles an hour, and grasping the
baby a-d its carriage, which had
rolled oLto the track, threw them
aside and cleared the track himself.
The pilot beam of the engine missed
him by few inches.
Bronze medal and $500 for educa-
tional purposes as needed.
Martha Generals colored, aged 81.
housewife, rescued Peter NJ. Malkems,
aged nine, from an electric shock,
Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 30, 1906. I'm
able to release his hold on an electric
light wire carrying 2,200 volts, the boy
was being jerked about, when Mrs.
Generals grasped him by the neck and
received shock which temporarily
paralyzedher arm. She appealed to by
ISLANDERS to aid him, but none respond
ed, and then she grasped the boy
again and succeeded in pulling him
disabled for a week. The boys hand
was badly burned.
Bronze medal and 500 month dur
ing her life.
Harley Tomlinson, colored, aged "a,
farmer, died assisting in an attempt to
save from drowning, Norwood, N. c.,
August 3, 1909. During a flood of the
Yadkin river, Tomlinson and another
man in :. bateau, padded 400 feet from
shore to Colson, who was clinging to
a fiatboat, and had gotten Colson
aboard when the bateau capsized.
Tomlinson and Colson were drowned.
Bronze medal and $50 month for
support of widow, during her lire. or
until she remarries, with 81 month
additional for each of three children,
until each reaches the age of 16.
Frank Forrest, colored, aged SO,
farmer, assisted in an attempt to save
Oscar Colson and help to save Henry
c. Meyer, aged 62, insurance agent,
from drowning, Norwood. N. c., Aug.
30, 1909. When the bateau capsized
Forrest swan down stream 500 feet
and was rescued by his son in boat;
then running along the bank mile
and quarter upstream to get above
Myers, who was in a slump OF trees
400 feet from land, he secured an
other boat, and accompanied by his
son, rescued Myers.
Bronze medal and $500 to liquidate
debt, and for other worthy purposes
as needed
James l.. Smith, colored, aged SO,
peddler saved Frances R. Hetrick,
aged 2, from burning, Sisterville,
w. Va, October, %, 1909. Breaking
away from men who tried to re-
strain him, after two or three men
who had tried to enter 1t, Smith crawl
ed under a doorway, through blast OF
heat and smoke and occasional flames,
into the hall of a cottage and then
into the adjoining living room, which
was dense with smoke and grasped
the child who had been left there.
Smith groped his way back to the
open door, dragging the child with
him, and when he reached the open
air collapsed. He soon revived. The
child sustained no burns.
Silver medal and $1,000 toward the
purchase of a home.
Boyce Lindsay, colored, aaged 16, de-
livery boy saved E. Reynold Smith,
aged II, from being run over by a
train Spartanburg, S. c., May 2S, 1910.
STOPPING over one rail in the face OF a
string of approaching box cars, when
the cars were but four feet distant,
Lindsay flung Smith off the middle OF
the track, where he had fallen from
his bicycle, himself being struck on
the right shoulder and whirled around
, against the side of a carsas he was
Strengthening up to get back from
the track. Neither was injured.
Bronze medal and $4,000 for educa'
tional purposes as needed.
John G. Walker, colored, aged 80
drayman, rescued William G. Obear
aged A, quartermaster general, state
militia of Georgia; Legare H. Obear
aged "a, and Julia H. Obear, aged A
months, and Edward w. Butler,
aged SIS, mayor and lawyer, and Green
Thomas. aged 56, laborer, from run
away, Madison, Ca, June 81, 1909.
Walker tried to grab the rein of one
of a team of spirited horses draw
ing a surrey containing Butler. Thorn
as and the Obears, but failing, he
ran alongside the horses few
steps and grabbed the rein. 1t slip
ped through his hands to the loop and
at thsa moment Walker was struck by
, wheel and knocked to the ground
The weel passed over his legs below
. the knees, and still clinging to the
rein, he was dragged along the street
about 15 feet, when as the result OF his
pulling back the horses ran into an
embankment and came to a stop
Walker was disabled nine days by his
injuries. None of the occupants OF
the surrey were hurt
Bronze medal and $500 toward the
purchase of home.
Charles A. Smith. colored, aged 81
laborer, attempted to save Theodore
Dilhof, aged 43, laborer, from suffoca.
ton Cincinnati O. NoYember 26 1910