Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-01
|23 HEROIC ACTS | ARE RECOGNIZED
Two Silver And 21 Bronze Medals Are Awarded By
 Carnegie Fund

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 30.-Twen- ty-three acts of heroism were recog-
 Rized by the Carnegie Hero Fund
 Commission m awards announced
 here tonight. In two cases silver
 medals were awarded; in twenty-one
 cases bronze medals Five of the
 heroes lost their lives and to the de-
 pendents of three or them pensions
 aggregating Sl.920 year were grant
 ed while to the dependents of one of
 these and of one other whose life was
 lost the sum of S25OO was granted to
 be applied MS the commission may
 sanction.
 In addition to theae money grants
 in nine cases awards aggregating S14,-
 400 were appropriated for education
 al purposes. and in six cases awards
 aggregating $5,50O were made for oth-.
 CT worthy purposes.
 The five who sacrificed their lives
 together with the awards follow:
 { Miss Elizabeth Ball. aged r, Buck
 eystown, Md: died attempting to
 save another girl from drowning in the Monocacy river. Buckeystown. July 13. 1920 Silver medal awarded to the father.
 Mrs. Mamie B. Crocker. Ponca City. Okla; drowned in futile attempt to rescue a child from deep water in a gravel pit at Dillon. Mont. July 2, 1920. Silver medal to the husband.
 James w. Mullally. Cambridge. Mass. crossing watchman; killed while attempting to save an aged woman from being struck by a train at Cambridge. October II 1920. Bronze medal to the widow and death benefits to her at the rate of s45 a month with $5 month additional on account of each of five children.
 Julius Hauck, Golden City. N. Y.: died attempting to save man and ! woman from drowning at Southamp- ton, N. r., August 19, 1920. Bronze ! medal to the widow and death bene- i fits to a daughter at the rate of s35 | a month Samuel Davis, negro. Aflex. Ky; I died in an attempt to rescue a young girl from drowning in Tug Fork of | the Big Sandy river at Aflex. Ky. July 12. 1920. Bronze medal to the widow and death benefits to her at ] the rate of $50 month with s5 ] month additional on account or her | daughter.
 Bronze medals were awarded to the following persons:
 Eugene Spencer Brooks. I westsf S1st street. New York City. 17-year- old student. rescued a fellow stucent from drowning at Antrim N. H., July 15, 1917; Arthur Lafayette Kimsey. Mont Airy, Ga.. saved well digger from suffocation at Mont Airy, Octo- Der 13, 1919. by entering a well filled with gas; Wayne G. Cook, 1901 Kahl building. Davenport. Iowa, rescued a man from the Mississippi river at Buffalo. Iowa. July 21, 1918; Ella E. Bukosy, 17 Carolina avenue, Clifton, N- J. helped to save boy from drown ing in Lake Agawan, Southampton, N. Y., August 19, 1920: William H. Clos son, R. D. 1, Three Bridges, N. J., res cued boy from South Branch, of the Raritan river, Pennington, IN. J.. Au- gust 6, 1918; Mrs. Mary M. Young, POP West Armour boulevard. Kansas City. Mo, rushed into g burning house and rescued aNchild at Kansas City. Mo. December 20. 1917; Joseph Wheeler Gebhardt, now deceased. 2051 Eighth avenue. Huntington, w. ", rescued a small boy who was standing in the middle of a track watching the ap- Droach of train. at Huntington, July 10. 1918; George R. Witt, I7O5 Slack Hawk street. Waterloo. Iowa, ,ity fire inspector, saved 13-year- i'd school boy from drowning in Ce- Tar river, at Waterloo, June IT, 1919: Hrs. Inza May Miller. 727 Jefferson treet. Waterloo. Iowa, hotel house. Ieeper, carried a 4-year-old boy from he path of runaway team of horses, ut was injured herself at Waterloo. september IT, 191S Robert E. Grant Foreman, 321 Starr street. Dallas,