Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-20
SEVENTEEN HEROIC ACTS
FORMALLY RECOGNIZED
Carnegie Here Fund Commission
Makes Public Latest List
Of Awards.
MONEY GRANTS IN SOME CASES
Silver Medals Donated in -Four In.
stances and Bronze Medals in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Go to Depend
cntS of These Who Lost Lives.

.lTTSBl' HG! PA.. January 10 IT
the twelfth annual m"c;iu,: OF til" car
. neSic Hero FUND Commission mere to-
day seventeen acts OF hcrosm were
. recounted In four cases silver medals
were awarded, in thirteen eases bronze
.ucGais Nine of the heroes lost their
ives and u III" dependents of four
o! 'heS" pensions ag2rc"at!ue $i."2o
year were granted; to the dependents
OF tour Of the others who last their
'!NoS sums io;Iilnr S%.una 10 u" -
i'iico. subject 10 the direction II ie
| commission. in various MAYS. were
granted. In addition 10 th"S" money
grants, in one case the sum %! 5000
was appropriated for educational pur-
poses. payments to hc made as needed
mud approved, ;,md in sjN cases awards
argrcIating Si.aou were mad" t"r uthc;
worthy purposes. Payments ia these
cases viii not -" made until! thc hYn"h-
Charles plans for tie us" of TIA" awards
have been approved hy the commits
sion.
The officers OF the commission wcr"
Reelected. Th,y are.
President. Charles L.. Taylor. vice.
president. j. w. Holland treasurer, j.
II. Reed. and sccr"tnr, aud manager.
L. NJ Wilmct, all 81 Pittsburgh Tho
foilowin. nov members WEI" elected:
George T.: peck fourth ,i"rrr"si
dent PENNSYLVANIA Railroad lines ives;
-. Williams president 81 the Carnegie
Steel Company. AND Y. l.. y. %hriNor, =
banker. MI rcsid" here.
The four silver medals We're awarded
as follows:
Harold W, snow. Of 7i2s crandon
Avenue. Ch.caco. = privat" secretary.
for attempting Ia save Moiiic Mere
dith. AN aEcd coiored woman. from
being killed hv train al Jackson
i,t
front Of u locomotive 10 save IN. WOO
man. int both W.rc struck. She died
several months later from hor iniu-
rics and Snow "ls so injured that the
i, a.nputntion of n!s leg was necessary.
7. i.nNrc'Ir sNrne. dead. Who was
an clever; -%ear-rld school boz. died at
trmr.iug 10 save William :. Ward. 4,
playmate" FROM drowning III il pond
Mt rhilnd"lplin, on MAY n. 1915 Tho
medal Is L. l." sent to his father ~
'i7ia south Fifty-SiNth street. 'hla-
|delphia
Melvin liare. dead WHO WAS IN
eighteen ycar-o!d farm hand. died at
t"mpiin" 10 say" A!nn /; Sum.ncrficid
from hcih" |un over is train n
tauby, ore, Oh January :. 1.li lie
attempted Ia rcscue Miss SGuncriiela
| from trcstle hut hcfore III could
reach her a locomotive STRUCK them
both. They were buried from INC tres
TIC 'la kiil'bt ne iIcuai u sent 10
liuscn's father, Candy orc
William l.. Gard. ST., dcrd. Il wire
chief ~ Little Rock Ark. lied at
tempting 10 say. siXtccu-ycav- oii IA
81" Hussici from drowning At lcntou.
Ari.. Oh July II. 1919. The girl he
came distressed in deep water In the
saline River, and, although Bard could
/ not swim We'll. he started TO her res
, cue Notwithstanding, that his fourteen
Z I.ar-ulu son clun.. Ia him and nc..L,I
I him not 20 risk his OWN life. He per
sisted i'm the attempt, however hut
when he was withln forty feet OF the
girl lac sank ard was drowned. 49, Was
Miss Elissick also. The medal vii. he
gent Ia tho wid"" 1T ll3l scott street
Little Rock, to 20. her with $50 Il month
3 n,nsicu. with 81 month additional for
each ~ three rhilir"n until they reach
the H@r al sixteen.
Hi:oNZE MEDALS AWARDED
For THESE HEROES