The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-05-07
CARNEGIE MEDALS
FOR HEROIC ACTS
Twenty-Three Acts of Hero
ism Recognized by Carne-
gle Hero Commission.

Pittsburg, Pa.-TWenty-three acts OF
heroism were recognized by the Car
negie Hero Fund commission in
awards announced Friday In two
cases silver medals were awarded; in
II cases bronze medals Five of the
heroes lost their lives and to the de
pendents of three of them pensions
aggregating 1920 a year were grant
ed, while to the dependents of one of
these and of one other whose life
was lost the sum of $500 was granted
to be applied as the commission may
sanction.
In addition to these money grants in
nine cases awards aggregating $14,400
were appropriated for educational pur-
poses, and in six cases awards aggre-
eating $500 were made for other
worthy purposes.
The five who sacrificed their lives,
together with the awards, follow
Miss Elizabeth Ball, aged II. Buck
eystown, Md Died attempting to
save another girl from drowning in
the Monocacy river, Buckeystown.
July Is, 1920 Silver medal to the
father
Mrs. Mamie 3. Crocker, Ponca City,
Okla Drowned in a futile attempt
rescue a child from deep water in a
gravel pit at Dillon Mont, July 2.
1920, Silver medal to the husband
James ". Mutually, CAMBRIDGE.
Mass crossing watchman Killed
while attempting TO save an aged WOO
man from being struck by train al.
Cambridge, OctOh T H. 1920 Bronze
medal to the widow and death beue-
fits to her at the rate of $45 a month
with a So i month additional on ac-
count OF each Of five children.
julius Hauck, Garden City, n y.
Died attempting to save man and
woman from drowning at Southamp-
ton, n. Y. August 19, 1920. Bronze
medal to the widow and death bene-
fits to a daughter at the rate Of $50 a
month.
Samuel Davis, negro, AfleX, Ky.
Died in an attempt to rescue a young
girl from drowning in Tug Fork of the
Big Sandy river at Aflex, KY, July r.,
1920 Bronze medal to the widow and
death benefits to her at the rate of
$50 a month, with IS additional on
account of her daughter.
Bronze medals were awarded to the
following persons:
Eugene Spencer Brooks, / West S1st
street New York City, 17-year-old stu
dent, rescued fellow student from
drowning at Antrim, N. H., July IS,
1917; Arthur Lafayette Kimsey, Mt.
Airy, Ga, saved a well digger from
suffocation at Mt. Airy, October -,
1919, by entering a well filled with
gas; Wayne G. Cook, 1901 Kahl build
ing, Davenport, Iowa, rescued man
from the Mississippi river at Buffalo,
Iowa, July q, 1918; Ella E. Bukosy,
II Carolina avenue, Clifton, N. j.,
helped to save a boy from drowning
in Lake Agawam, Southampton, N. j.,
August 10, 1920; William H. Closson,
R. D. l, Three Bridges, N. j., rescued
a boy from South Branch of the Rari-
tan river, Pennington, n J., August
6, 1918; Mrs. Mary M. Young, 202
West Armour boulevard Kansas City,
Mo, rushed into a burning house and
rescued at child, at Kansas City, Mo-,
December 20, 1917; Joseph Wheeler
Gebhardt, now deceased, 2501 8th ave-
nue., Huntington, w. Va, rescued a
small boy who was standing in the
middle of a track watching the ap-
proach of a train, at Huntington, July
10, 1918; George R. Witt, 1905 Black
Hawk street, Waterloo, Iowa, city fire
inspector, saved a 13-year-old school
boy from drowning in Cedar river, at
Waterloo, June II, 1919; Mrs. Inza
May Miller, 727 jefferson street,
Waterloo, Iowa, hotel housekeeper, car
ried a 4-year-old boy from the path of
a runaway team of horses, but was
injured herself, at Waterloo, Septem-
Der H. 1918; Robert E. Grant Fore
man, 321 Starr street, Dallas, Texas,
aged 10 years, saved a companion
from drowning at Balboa, Cal, Sep
TENDER 6, 1918; Julian Langston Lath-
rop, box III, Breckenridge, Texas, res
cued two small boys from drowning
in the Charles river at Cambridge,
Mass, January Z, 1917; Ernest Simon
Leopold, 1928 Bayand street, Pitts
Jul 3, 1f-yCdl-Olu SCliOOI UOy, attempted
to save another school boy from
drowning in the Allegheny river,
Pittsburg, June II, 1919; William H.
Graves, Jr., 50 Brattle street, Cam
bridge, Mass, saved a man from
drowning in the Annisquam river, An
nisquam, Mass, July rs, 1918; Ray
mond j. Moore, Gleasondale, Mass,
rescued boy from pond at Gleason
dale, January Is, 1919; Arthur Ryan,
aged IA, 72S Slade street, Fal River,
Mass, saved two boys who broke
through thin ice on Cook pond at Fall
river, January 10, 1919; Paul Dayton
Bliss, Corning, Iowa, 14-year-old
school boy, saved a companion from
drowning in the East Nodaway river,
at Corning, May 4, 1918; Miss Helen
F. Dodge, 1914 Walton avenue, Phila-
delphia, Pa, aged II years, saved a
little girl from drowning in Toms
river, at Ocean Gate, N. j., July IS,
1919; and Clyde D. Webster, Dillon,
Mont, who attempted to save two
women from drowning at Dillon, July
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