Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-29
MEDALS AWARDED
CARNEGIE HEROES
BY COMMISSION
Recognition Given in 50 Cases
From All Parts of Country;
in 10 Cases Loss of Life
Attended Act Rewarded,

icy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lrAssu wlssi
pittsburgh. Pa. April 2S.--The Car
negie hero fund commission. at its
springtlme meeting here today. rec
osnlzed fifty-two acts Of heroism in
various parts of the country. In elev-
en- cases silver medals were awarded
and in forty-one cases bronze medals
Nineteen of the heroes lost their lives
and TO the dependents of ten of these
pensions aggregating $1,000 year
granted; and to the dependents of
eight Of the others who lost their
lives, sums totalling So 600, to be APP
pied, subject TO the direction of the
commission, in various ways were
granted In addition to these money
grants, in three cases sums aggregat-
ing $4,000 We're appropriated for ed
ucational purposes, payments to he
made as needed and approved; and in
twenty-four cases awards aggregating
$50 000 were made for other worthy
purposes. Payments in these cases
will not he made until the beneficiar-
les plans for the use Of the awards
have been approved by the commits
sion
The awards were as follows:
Bronze Medals.
Duncan Lapgdon, 1875 West Forty
fourth street. New York City, for saw
ing three women from drowning at
Ogunquit, Me, September s, 1912.
James +. Mcmahon, 429 Hopkins
avenue, Astoria, n. Y, for saving
George L. Girard, aged 8, from drown
ing at Corsons inlet, n j.. September
2, 1912.
Louis A. Benoist, Pottstown, Pa, for
saving A. Pandely Pattison, a play
mate, from drowning at Biloxi, Miss,
June II, 1918.
Albert W. Cinniger. 1850 East Erie
avenue, Lorain, O., lawyer, for saw
ing Mabel f. Riley, aged 81, from be-
ing killed by an electric car at Lo-
rain. December II 1915.
Mark A. Nelson, 10 West Summit
avenue, st. Paul, Mimi, a nine-year-
ierson, aged 81, from drowning at
saltwater, Mimi, August II, 1911.
George d. Rowe. Wake Forest col
ard X. Masters, a student from
Va, August %, 1911.
y. iNbktI fNllNtl uditt d. q
school teacher, for saving Earl NJ
from fallen light wire at Silver
lale. Pa, October 8, 1912.
William A. Salisbury, Albany, ore,
'or helping to save Archie O. Rams
len from drowning at Albany, ore.
July 16. 1911.
Clair b. Baker 1898 10 Belmont
D. 90. h, II,
ave Ramsden and Salisbury in the
oregoing case.
James A. Pankhurst. Bradford, Pa.
l baggage master for saving Mrs
Nellie Il. Shoemaker from assassina-
IN open razor, at Riverside Junction.
'. Y, August 4. 1918.
William +. True, Stonington, Ind. |
laborer, for saving De Lone ana |
MARTHA H. Menaugh from drowning !
1t Lawrenceport, Ind, September 4, I
911.
John ]. HUT, Cherry Valley. Mass.
carpenter, for savinge nine-year-old |
.ouise Champoux from drowning at i
'herry Valley, January 81. 1915.
f. Sylvester Mahan, r. d. No 8,
.ewis, Ind, farmer, for saving John |
lewis, July IA, 1914.
Charles c. Warrington, Fayetteville,
srk.. merchant, for the rescue of I
everal persons from runaway at
April 80, 1915. I
l.. Winston Chew, Neosho, Mo, a
tationary engineer, for helping the
escue of Robert S. Gathers and Noah
Toss. from suffocation in mine at
pnlip Mo AupffSt 10 1912
William o. Ruch, deceased fof as
listing an attempt to save Thomas
Nicholson from suffocation in a tank
t Sour Lake, Tex, July 81. 1915.
ieda1 and $50 a month. with addi-
ional sum for a son, to widow, at
our Lake Tex.
j. Alfred Snellings, Reeds Mo, for
elping to save Gathers and Goss in
he foregoing case
Basileios l. Evans, 24S Krams ave
ue, Philadelphia. Pa, II confection- .
r, for saving Edward Daley, a la
orer, from drowning through the ice
n Schuylkill canal, December "a,
914.
Edward f. Mcclure, Denson, O.,
stationary engineer, for saving ILL
IN f. and Jane +. Andreas from
ROWING at Tuscarawas, O., July 4,
914.
sylvester Fl. Welser, Jr., Ashtabula.
J., a pipefitter, for saving William T. ,
lccauliff. a laboreT, from suffoca- I
on in a tank at Ashtabula. December
1912.
Mrs Eva e. Prince, Mason, Mich.
ged 20, saved Florence Parker, Elsie !
. Pierce and four young children {
rom an enraged bull at Mason, Octo- ,
er 10, 1918. The women and child ,
sn had taken refuge in a frame
hack when q wild bull charged to- {
ard them, but the shack was of film /;
! construction and the bull bad {