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

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4 Silver Medal
clifford v. Graves, aged 50, tArmer.
saved Merritt L. Brown, colored. aged
AZ, farmer. from an enrAged bull. Yer
sailles, Kentucky, March Z, 1907.
Graves attacked the animal with q
pocket knife, while it was butting
and trampling Brown to the ground.
He was himself knocked down and
sustained fractured rib, and bruises
all over the body. before the bull was
chased away by Graves dog.
Bronze Medal and 800 to be ap-
piled to the liquidation of his debts.
Raymond A. May. aged %. locomo-
tive fireman, saved James L. Douglas,
colored, aged 2, from being run over
by a train, Pates, KY, September g.,
1908. While his train was running
thirty miles an hour, May noticed the
child on the track, The brakes hav-
ing been applied, he went from the
cab to the pilot, where he braced
himself in a kneeling position on the
footrail, and reaching forward with
both hands, lifted the babe from the
ground and threw 1t to the side Of
the track.
Bronze Medal.
James B. Goldman, aged 81, fore
man, saved Warren Finley, colored,
aged 80, laborer, from being run over
by train, Waterloo, s. c., June 30,
1908. Becoming frightened at an APP
preaching train. Finley jumped from
hand car on which he was riding
and fell in front Of it. He was held
to the ground by the hand car, and
just as Goldman released him, they
were struck by the engine, both be-
ing injured, Goldman sustained bruis-
es on the body and cut on the
cheek.
Silver Medal and $1,000 toward the
purchase Of farm.
Adolph Arnholdt, aged "a, weaver,
died attempting to save Earl John
son, colored, aged 8, from drowning,
Philadelphia. Pa, October 3, 1903.
Arnholdt swan fifty feet from the
bank in Schulykill River to Johnson,
who had fallen into the water, and,
being grabbed around the neck by
the boy, was unable to free himself.
Both were drowned.
support of widow during her life, or
until she remarries, with S. a month
additional for each Of six children I'M
til each reaches the age of sixteen.
Frank Dinner, aged 81, foreman,
died saving John Bevin, colored, aged
So, laborer, from suffocation, New
Orleans, La, October q, 1907. ON
ner went to the bottom of an eleven
foot sewer manhole and fastened a
rope around Bevin. The latter was
pulled out and recovered, but when
Dinner was removed he was dead.
Silver Medal to widow and $4,000
to liquidate mortgage on her property
and $50 a month during her life, or
until she remarries, with So a month
additional for each of two children
until each reaches the age of sixteen.
Amila G. Cone, aged 81, housewife,
attempted to save Evalina Smith, col
ored, aged 5 months, from burning,
Raleigh Florida, May 5, 1908. Rush
ing into burning cottage, through
dense smoke, to the second room
the outside door, while embers from
the roof dropped about her, Mrs.
Cone rolled the baby from blazing
bed into the front Of her bingham
skirt and carried it outside, sustain
ing severe burns on the hands. The
baby died.
Silver Medal.
William M. Edwards, aged rs, long
shoreman, rescued Lucius Hubbard,
colored, aged 20, stevedore, from
burning, Philadelphia, Pa, June 20,
1908. Edwards slid down a rope
through a hatchway of a freight
steamer to the first undertook, which
was in flames due to an explosion,
and secured Hubbard, fastened him
to a rope, and climbing up, with as
sistance, drew him up. Hubbard died.
Silver Medal and $1,000 toward pur-
chase of home.
e. Rayph Adams, aged Is, school
boy, helpel to save Arvy d. Mahoney,
coored aged 10, and died assisting in
an attempt to save Burdette G. Blett,
aged II, from drowning, Decatur,
Michigan, December Z, 1904.
Lying fiat on the ice of Lake of the
Woods, twelve hundred feet from
shore with another boy holding to
his ankles, Adams worked his way
to a hole in which Mahoney and
Blett were struggling, and dragged
Mahoney from the water He and
his companions were approaching the
hole as before, to rescue Blett, when
the ice broke, all three were drowned.
L Bronze Medal.
Thomas M. Christenbury, aged 3S,
chief of police, rescued Rufus Long,
colored, aged 76, laborer, from a
caveain in web, Charlotte, N. c.,
August 9, 1909. Regardless Of the
warning of another man, Christen-
bury, who measured twenty-five inch
es across the shoulders descended a
ladder with rope around him into
well twenty-five feet deep and thir-
ty inches IN diameter to Long, who
had been caught by the wall caving
in and pinioning his arm, about thir-
teen feet from the surface. Christen-
bury removed the stones holding
Tonp'c arm and though there was