The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

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/ In her life.
} Harley Tomlinsen, eoiored. sssd So
! farmer. died assisting In an atfcinp'
| to save Oscar Colson, colofed, aged
, "a, farmer, from drowning. Norwood
. North Carolina, August J, 1903. Dur
: ing food OF the Yadkin River, Tom
J lineon and another man In q Dateau
: padded four hundred feet from shore
to Colson, who was clinging to a fiat
/ boat, and had gotten Colson aboard
J when the bateau capsized. Tomlin,
son and Coleon were drowned.
: Bronze medal and $50 a month for
support of widow, during her life, OF
} until she remarries, with 81 a month
. additional for each Of three children
until each reaches the age OF sixteen
Frank Forrest, colored, aged 53,
. farmer, assisted in an attempt to save
Oscar Colson and helped 10 save
Henry C. Myers, aged 62, insurance
agent, from drowning, Norwood, N. c.,
August 80, 1909. When the bateau
captized Forrest swan down stream
five hundred feet and was rescued by
his son in boat; then running along
the bank a mile and a quarter up
stream to get above Myers, VINO was
in a clumb Of trees four hundred feet
from land, he secured another boat,
and, accompanied by his son, rescued
Myers.
Bronze medal and $500 10 liquidate
debt, and for other worthy purposes
as needed.
James l.. Smith, colored, aged SO,
peddler, saved Francis R. Hetrick,
aged 2, from burning, Sisterville, West
Virginia, October %, 1909. Breaking
away from men who tried to restrain
him. after two or three men had tried
to enter 1t, Smith crawled under a
doorway, through a blast Of heat and
smoke and occasional flames, into
the hall Of cottage and then into
the adjoining living room, which was
dense with smoke and grasped the
child who had been left there. Smith
CROPPED his way back to the open door,
dragging the child with him, and
when he reached the open air, col
lapsed. He soon revived. The child
sustained no burns.
Silver Medal and $1,000 toward the
purchase of home.
Boyce Lindsay, colored, aged 16,
delivery boy, saved E. Reynold Smith,
aged II, from being run over by
train, Spartanburg, South Carolina,
May %, 1910 STOPPING over one
rail in the face of string of ap-
preaching 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
I against the side of car as he was
Strengthening up to get back from
the track. Neither was injured.
Bronze Medal and $4,000 for edu-
! cational purposes as needed.
/ John G. Walker, colored, aged %,
drayman, rescued William G. Obear,
aged A, Quartermaster General, State
Militia of Georgia, Legare H. Obear,
age "a, and Julia H. Obear, aged four
months, and Edward w. Butler, aged
/ So, Mayor and lawyer, and Green
Thomas, aged Sc, laborer, from run
away, Madison, Georgia, June q, 1909.
Walker tried to grab the rein of one
of team of spirited horses drawing
surrey containing Butler, Thomas
and the Obears, but failing, he ran
alongside the horses few steps and
grabbed the rein. 1t slipped through
his hands to the loop, and at that
moment Walker was struck by a
wheel and knocked to the ground. The
wheel passed over his legs below the
knees, and still clinging to the rein,
he was dragged along the street for
about fifteen feet, when as the result
of his pulling back the horses ran in
to an embankment and came to a
stop. Walker was disabled nine days
| by his injuries. None of the occu-
pants of the surrey we're hurt
Bronze Medal and $500 toward the
purchase of a home.
Charles A. Smith colored, aged 81,
laborer, attempted to save Theodore
Dilhoff, aged 43, laborer, from suffo-
cation, Cincinnati, Ohio, November
&c, 1910 Disregarding warnings to
take precautions for his own safety,
Smith descended a ladder in twelve
foot manhole of sewer, where Dill
hoff lay unconscious from carbonic
acid gas and methane. When about
two feet above Dilhoff's body and as
he was reaching toward him, Smith
fell unconscious across Dilhoff's body.
Di,hoff was dead when gotten out.
Bronze Medal and $1,000 towards
the purchase of home.
Mack Stallworth, colored, aged 93,
oil tank cleaner, died saving Squire
Bradford, aged %, Oil, tank cleaner,
from suffocation, Port Arthur, Texas,
June 20, 1910 Bradford was over
come in tank-car by gas which had
formed in it. Stallworth entered the
car through an opening fifteen inches
in diameter, and grasping Bradford
lifted him up 50 that two men on the
outside Of the car could reach him
Bradford was gotten out, but Stall
worth was overcome by the gas and
was suffocated before he could be
rescued. Bradford revived.
: Bronze Medal and $50 a month fol
: support Of widow, during her life, OF
until she remarries, with S. month
. additional for her son until he reaches
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