The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-01
CARNEGIE COMM SSlON DESIG MATES MOST HEoRlc ACT
 OF THE PAST YEAR.
SlOO,OOO.O0 IS DISTRIBUTED
Wright Crept Over Precipice and Worked in Danger of His Life for Two Hours and a Half to Save Lie of One of His Neighbors.

Pittisburg, Pa, Oct. Sl.-Nearly s10O,0O0 is disbursed to heroes or their relatives by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in it's report made
 public today.
 The commission distributes imme-
 diately $sl 900 in awards of $2,0OO anu $1,000. There are 16 awards of S2 GOO and 39 in awards of $1,O00. The remainder are in awards con- sisuug of pensions ranging from $2O ! 10 $5j a month, and in cash sums
 under $l,000. In every award a med
 al is given. either bronze or silver or
 gold In a few instances only 8
 medal was awarded.
 The highest award. consisting of a
 gold medal and $2,00O in cash money, goes to Charles x. Wright. mer- ! chant SS years old, of Highlands, N. C., who with William l.. billiard, d lireryman, 3S years old, of tho same
 place, helped to save R Augustus Baty, carpenter, 2G years old from a fall down a preclpice, at that place
 May IL. l9ll billiard receives a sil- yer medal and $2000
 Bay had fallen from the summit of Whiteside mountain at Fools Rock and rolled 150 feet down an almost vertical cliff, and lodged against a small bush, two inches from the l-b4ink Of q pre5iflioe 9e,0eo- feet tfeesJ5- part Of his body dangling over tie edge.
 Wright and Dillard dest ended the vertical ledge, their only handhOlds or foot holds being ridges and ho,- lows, not more than an inch in
 height or depth. Wright's wife saw
 him and began to scream. He was nearly unnered, but pushed on. Stop ping at tiny bush six feet above
 Baty he let his feet down ledge two feet above the brink, and then grasped Baty's coat collar. Baty gave a sudden jerk but became quiet when Wright threatened him. Pinning his legs around the bush, Wright drew Baty up to d place of comparative safety, where billiard, who had lost his nerve iu the final stages of the rescue, was wai.ing The two men now took Baty, who was delirlous, about 15 feet across the bare face of the cliff, within IS 'n- ehes of the brink. Then they moved
 Baty to the foo of the vertical ledge at the summit, from which point hc
 was hoisted by means of a line. lie recovered. The rescue took two
 hours and tfirty minutes. All awards in the southwest were con
 fined to Texas, with a single award
 in Louisiana. They follow: R. Pauline Mckinney, Van AlseyGe, 1 TeXas-Bronze medal aad $2,00O as needed us educational purpose, Miss Mckinney, aged 15, saved Robert ". Drye, aged ,. from being run over by
 train.
 Olin M. Scott, Weldon Texas Bronze medal and S2,O00, as needed for educational purposes, Scott, aged II, saved Ida M Shipman aged g, from drowning, Weldon, Texas, ept. 15, 1912. Miss Shipman was swimming across Trinity river when she became tired. Scot rescued her Ebert Gray, Canton, Texas Bronze medal and $2,000, as needed for educational purposes. Gray (col- ored) saved A. Calvin Stepp, aged
 ?, from drowning in a well, Canton, Texas, Feb. g. 1912
 Nolden Townsend, R. r. D. ?. Waco, Texas-Bronze medal and $2000, as needed for educational purposes.
 Townsend (oolored) saved Semma
 Scale, aged i, from being run over by an automobile truck. Waco Texas,
 Feb. 1, 1912.
 Gurley C. Jacobs, R. F. D. l, Grand
 Prairie, Texas-Bronze medal and $1 000, as needed Helped to save
 Elma H. Stafford, 1Iay Turner and
 eight children from drowning, Leto6,
 Texas, May 24 1908. Jacobs and
 another man entered boat and, in
 darkness, padded it a mile and half
 across the flooded countryside to
 take them from house,
 Thomas H. Bayne, Trinity, TeXos-.
 Bronze medal and $1,00O as needed.
 Saved Ethel c. Taylor and NJ. lnsz
 Trow from drowning, Trinity, Texas, lsSept 5, 1912.
 ] Thomas II, Griffin, route 1, Gle