The Cairo bulletin., 1913-11-03
CARNEGIE GIFTS
GIVEN TO MANY
ILLINOIS HEROES
Commission for lronmlster Makes
largest Award Since Plan
Was Conceived.
$7l,6Oo AWARDED FROM
FUND FOR PAST QUARTER

Pittsburg,, Pa. Nov. 2,---The
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
which met for its quarterly meet ne
here this afternoon made awards
for the past quarter aggregating
$7i,600. This is the greatest
amount the comm ssion has ever
awarded at a single meeting. Other
awards include one goli medal
twenty-six silver medals and iifty
bronze medals.
ont Of the seventy-seyen awards
throughout the United Ctates and
Canada, the state of Ill l'ncis was
third IN the greatest number OF
awards with a total Of twelve. Texas
with l6, and New York with l5, be
ing first and second, respectively,
The Illinois awards follow:
w. Ross King, Kane, Ill Bronze
medal and $4,000, as needed foraedu-
cational purposes. King is a clerk
seventeen years Old He saved
Henry w. BeuSchel. aged seventeen
from drowning at Kane on May %.
1919. Eeuschel was swimming in
Macoupin creek when he became
distressed fifteen feet from the bank
where the water was over six feet
deep. King, whose right hand and
lower forearm had been amputated
ran to the bank and sprang into the
water, the momentum carrying him
TO Beuschel. He grasped Beuschels
hair and raised his head above the
surface. Their struggles brought
them to the bank and a young man
reached out and grasped Kings fin
gars aud slowly pulled the two 70
safety,
Moses c. Large, ESQ Mauy sterrr
street. jacksonville. Bronze
medal and $1,000. Large who is 4
painter, thirty-two years old, saved
Margaret Miller, aged eighty, from
burning in a building at Jacksonville
on August rs, 1910. Large was COM
pelled to go into the building twice
for the woman, she having returned
when first assisted out. The sec
ond visit was through hallwa"
filled with smoke and fire to Mrs
Miller's room, where he found her
unconscious. AS he entered the
room some plaster fell from the cell.
ine. Large needed air, and after he
had pat his head through small
window a moment he went to Mrs
Miller and dragged her to the street
where she was revived.
Dies Trying to Save Man.
Edwin r. lIulett, deceased, West
Main street, Baardstown. Ill.,
Bronze medal TO father and s goo.
Hulett. aged twenty-one boatman,
went TO his death attempting to save
Wilbur G. Dial, twenty-five years
cid from drowning at Valley City,
ILL.,, May 30, 1913. Dial who could
not sw m, fell into deep water from
a moving barge in the Illinois river
and Hulet diyed after him. He
swan ten feet and grasped life pre-
server which had been thrown t.
Dial and extended it to Dial, wh1
was struggling at the surface. The
drowning man reached over the life
preserver and grasped Hulott with
both hands. Both sank and were
drowned.
Marion j Case, Louisville ill.--
Silver medal and $1,000 Case, aged
fifty-one. a laborer, saved TAoma.
Heath, a well digger, from suffoca.
tion at Lewisville. H., on May %
1911. Heath was overcome by dyna
mite fumes at the bottom Of a vel
% feet deep, and after two mer
had refused to descend to tie a rop,
around him Case said he would go
although he was easily affected by
foul air He held to rope ant
stood with one foot in the moose an,
was lowered to the bottom. II,
looped the rope around Heath ant
men at the top raised him to tn,
surface. The rope was again lowered
to Case and he looped it around hi,
body and was hoisted out. Ho wa.
disabled three days. Heath did no
recover consciousness for seyera
hours.
Gave Life to Save Children.
Maurice Buckley, deceased. Olney
Ill.---Silyer medal and pension q
$50 a month to widow. Buckley,
crossing watchnan, seventy-thre,
years old, died saving Byron V. ant
Mary E. Bohnstedt. thirteen and ter
years old respectively, from bein.
run over by train at Olney on Sep
tember &c, 1912. Byron and Mary