The Washington herald., 1917-11-04

/ just dIter NldTtln Hdu Ju11lpeu' plS"N
ing her collarbone and sustaining
few bruises.
G. Clifford Cress, sO6 W. Boule-
ward street. Lewistown. Mont.
! (bronze medal and $1,000 for a
worthy purpose, as necded), aged
AZ, clergyman, saved Mildred n
Spicer, aged 9. from drowning.
lLewistown, Mont, August 90, 1919.
Mildred was swept from a bar into
deep pool in Spring Creek ana
was carried toward a whirlpool at
the middle of the pool. Cress.
poor swimmer, waded, fully dress
ed. into deep water and swan forty
feet to Mildred, who was then un-
der the surface. He seized her ana
swan sixty feet across a swift cur
rent with her. reaching the oppo-
site bank almost exhausted. Neither
suffered serious effects.
W. Roy Maynard, r. D, Sterling
station, N. Y. tbronze medal and
ST. 900 for a worthy purpose, as
needed aged &c. fireman (steam
shoveD, saved Byron ID. Wells, aged
is, laborer. from drowning, Minetto,
n. Y, June Z, 1913. Wells fell from
a trestle into the Oswego River and
was carried along by a current OF
eight miles an hour. He Grasped a
rope that extended from the bank
to an anchored raft near mid-rlVer
and held to it. He was a 1G5 feet
from the bank and was unable to
save himself Maynard left the bank
and went hand-over- hand along the
rome. which was at the surface. to
Wells. He then called for help
and another man (see case of Bern
ard l.. Findley) went out along the
rome as Maynard had done. May
nard and the other man seized Wells
and held to the rope and then called
for the rope to be cut at the raft
so that they would be carried to
the bank by the current. But when
the rope was cut the other man lost
his hold and was carried down
stream. Maynard retained his hold
on the rope and on Wells for a
time, but then lost his hold on both,
and he and Wells were carried
downstream within forty feet OF
the bank. Wells was under water
and was holding to Maynard's an
kle. Maynard kept at the surface
until a man waded out and extended
the branch of tree to a point
within his reach, and he and Wells
were drawn ashore. Wells was un-
conscious and Maynard was almost
exhausted, but both recovered.
william i. Sterling. deceased
(widow) 46 White street. East Bos-
ton, Mass. Csilver medal and $40 a
month to the widow, aged % fore
man carpenter. died attempting to
save Edward ]. Hughes, aged 40 car
penter. or one or more of three other
persons from suffocation. Boston.
Mass, November .. 1916. Three men,
bers of Sterling's gang of carpenters
were overcome in the hold Of the
steamship Devonian, which had been
fumigated with prussic acid gas. and
fourth fell from a ladder that he
| was descending into the hold. From
the main deck Sterling and another
I man started down to the rescue The
latter was advised by his son not to
go, and he stopped. Sterling went on
to the bottom, forty-one feet below
the main Deck. He stopped over a
man as Tough to tie a rope to him,
and then began to climb tho ladder.
He was overcome when he had got
as far as the lowest deck, and no fell
back into the hold. lie was later
removed from 1t, but lived only an
hour. Two of the men originally
overcome were later taken out dead,
but the other two were removed alive
and recoverd.
Ezra C. Lawrence, deceased (widow),
Enfield. n. H. (silver medal and $50
month to the widow. with s. a
month additional for each of four
tI 1C or until further notice., aged
81. t"amster. died attempting to save
Joseph F. Harding. aged IS, soldier
from being killed by a train. Enfield,
y. H., April Il, 1917. Harding was
sitting on a chair in a covered rail-
road bridge with his feet on the rail
of the track apparently unaware that
fast train was approaching. Law
renee heard the train and ran ahead
of 1t toward Harding, calling to him,
but both men were struck and kill
ed by the train.
Allen L. Darby, 231 North Chelsea
avenue, Atlantic City, N. ]. (bronze
medal and $500 for a worthy purpose,
as needed. aged 20. captain city fire
department, rescued David W. Hears,
aged 50, teamster, from a runaway
Atlantic City, n. j., March Is, 1916.
Two horses that Kears was driving
became frightened and ran swiftly
through a crowded section, drawing
4 dump-wagon after them by their
brea st-chains. Hears fell to the
wagon-tongue and clung there Darby
jumped onto the running board of an
automobile and urged the driver to
overtake the team. When the auto
mobile came within four feet Of one
of the horses, Darby leaped from the
running-board onto the horse, caught
the names of the harness and drew
himself astride the horse. He then
seized the reins and brought the
horses to a stop. fifty feet short of a
deep ditch that crossed the street,
having ridden 137 feet on the horse.
Kears was badly bruised, but recov-
cred.
Eunice A. Dickey, Clarkelen, wyo-
ming (silver medal and $1,000 for
worthy purpose. as needed, aged IS,
teacher. saved Charles Banister, aged
30. homesteader, from suffocation, Gil
lette, Wyo., July L, 1916. Banister
was overcome at the bottom of a
forty-five-foot well. A man was
lowered about ten feet but felt that
the gas was affecting him and called
to be withdrawn. Although three men
at the well tried to dissuade her. Miss
Dickey tied rope to herself and had
the men lower her. She attached a
rope to Banister and they were drawn
up together. Miss Dickey was slightly
affected when she reached the top,
but she helped to revive Banistsr. She