The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-04
CARNEGIE FUND
HEROES NAMED
Eight of Twenty three
Heroes Lost Lives in
Heroic Acts.
MEDALS AND MONEY

Pittsburgh Eight ofl the twenty
three heroes officially recognized to-
day by the Carnegie Hero Fund COM
mission lost their lives while endeav-
oring to sac some unfortunate. A
pension of $3.50 year was granted to
the dependents Of one hero, and $4,000
will be applied by the commission fol-
the dependents Of five others. For
those who survived their heroic eff
forts the commission awarded $11,20C
for educational purposes, and in six
cases awards aggregating $500 were
made for other worthy purposes. Six
silver medals and seventeen of bronze
were given.
The deceased:
Charles H. Bennett, SO Swezey street
Patchague, Long Island, tried to save
Mrs. Louis W.. Heath, off Fire Island
July 8, 1921.
David Nesbit Hamilton, PIT Wash
ington avenue, Vendergriff, Pa, tried
to save Glen H. Elrick from drowning
at Campbells Mills, Pa, May 80, 1921
Timothy R. Conner, Ames street
Worcester, Mass, mail carrier, tried to
save James Dorsey from drowning at
Worcester, December 20, 1921.
William Thomas Ball, Harper, Kan
sas, saved Carl E. Yoder from being
run down by train, at Harper, De-
cember 10, 1921
Philip S. Lund, 80 Iowa street, Ced-
| n.. Tall ~snI -
from drowning at Fedar Falls May %
1921.
Thomas H. Robinson, thirteen year
old school boy of sos Fairview street
Camden, N. j., tried to save compan-
ion from drowning at Gloucester City
II j., June IL, 1921.
Gardner B. Aubrey, Sc Chauncey
street, Watertown, Mass, tried to save
Francis X. Cradle from drowning at
Cambridge, Mass, May 80, 1921.
Joseph Cimino, 1407 Fourteenth
street, Fairmont, w. Va, tried to save
Robert T. Hawkins from drowning at
Weston, w. w. June ~, 1920.
The living:
Frederick W. Ronbeck, 1857 Dean
street, Brooklyn, N. Y. saved unidenti
fed man from drowning at Oakbeach
N. Y, July 4, 1919.
Charles G. Schlabig, 10S Franklin
street, Dubois, Pa, saved Helen j
Martinson from drowning at Sabula
Pa, July s, 1919
James NJ Waters, Morrisonville. ILL.,
saved Agassiz, B. Walker from being
killed by train at MorrisonvilTe, Feb
ruary "a, 1920.
Roy F. Barnes, sol Forty-frst street
Moline, H., saved Milo A. Leffingwell
from being killed by a train, January
9, 1920.
John H. Harper, West Tulsa, Oklaa
saved John M. Jones from suffocation
in tank car at West Tulsa, May IS,
1920.
Thomas A. O'Brien, 3ls Spring
street, Latrobe, Pa, saved one girl and
tried to save another from drowning at
Darlington, Pa, August 8, 1919.
Dona A. Mccullough, sixteen-year-
old stenographer, of 926 Rose street
McKeesport, Pa, tried to save Mary
j. Hays from drowning at Zelienople,
Pa, August 81, 1921.
John Edward Laughery, fourteen
year-old school boy, of Mill Run, Pa,
saved Bertha G. Mccormick from
drowning at Mill Run, July 20, 1921.
Otto Reid, twelve-year-old school
boy of Burning Spring, Kentucky, saw
ed companion from drowning at
Oneida, KY, June II, 1919
Powell T. Lindgrsn, 600 North
Church street, Charlotte. N. c., saved
Edith B. Taylor, from drowning al
Asbury Park, N. j., May 80, 1920.
Howard r. Willard, 216' Central
street, Georgetown, Mass, saved Hen
ry F. Baxter from drowning at George
town, February IL 1919.
Wesley N. Fain, Grand Prairie. Tex
as, a fourteen-year-old boy, saved Ed
ward w. PASSING from drowning al
Glenn Allen, Miss, July 81, 1918.
Herbert Aaron Friedrich, Cooper
Carlton hotel, Chicago, saved Raymond
Kraft from an impending fall in Ola
cier Park, Mont, August 6, 1919, as
sisting him to place of safety under