Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-28
FIVE TEXANS
GET CARNEGIE
) HERO MEDALS
H. Year-old Lad Gets
Honor For Effort
To Rescue Woman
From Rio Grande

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 27.=R-
cltanons issued here today by the
carnegie Hero Commission show
1--WE Texans have been awarded
bronze medals for heroic attempts at
life saving.
three survived 20 receive the
rewards Two lost their lives in vain
attempts to succor companions in
gre distress. Four were marked as
heroes for saving persons from
drowning. The fifth, a school boy.
we'll.
Awards to the living were made
70 Frank Leon Leggett, 1T Payne
Ct, Houston; Robert ". McMinn,
hural Route 3, jacksonville; and
1raciano $. Salinas, Eagle Pass.
those who made the supreme sac
riIlce were Almon l.. Lilley. whose
widow resides at pol Virginia Ave.
~Maxahaehie, and to Charles John
irautwein. Jr., whose father re-
SIDES at 425 West Twenty-second St..
Houston.
Stenographer Hero
The commission describes the
eases as follows:
Leggett. aged twenty-five, steno-
Erapher, saved Amanda and E. Louise
DAVIS from drowning, Sheldon,
texas, July IL, 1926. Leggett, who
followed close behind Trautwein and
was partly clothed, swan twenty
five feet from the bank and took
nold Of Mrs. Davis. She grabbed
h!m, and a struggle followed in
which Leggett was submerged at
least once He then swan fifteen
1eet with Mrs. Davis, who held to
Louise, to SOM exposed rocks near
a pier. Leggett was fatigued but
soon made unsuccessful efforts 10
lind Trautwein's body BY diving.
Irautwein, aged twenty, plumbers
apprentice, died attempting to save
Amanda and E. Louise Davis. aged
tnlrty-six and five. respectively,
fxom drowning. Sheldon. Texas. Juiy
II, 1926. While wading in the San
Jacinto river, Louise stepped from
q sand-bar into deep water fifty
feet from the bank OF the river.
her mother went TO her aid and
botn were carried by the current
1arther from the bar. Trautvein.
Iuily clothed. swan twelve feet
from the bank toward them and
then went under the surface mo-
mentarily. He drifted twenty feet
or more ard then sank and was
drowned. Mrs. Davis and Louise
were rescued by another man.
School Boy Brave
McMinn, aged fifteen, school boy,
saved Leonard Jones (colored), aged
f~orty-two, well digger, from a cave
IN in a well, Jacksonville, Texas,
January "a. 1925. While Jones was
I work in the bottom Of a we'll
'rty-one feet deep. a fall Of SAND
rom one side covered him to the
top Of his shoulders. MeMinn. who
had never beer in a well, descended
TO Jones and shoveled the sand away
from Jones and sent il Up to the top
IN a bucket. Becoming tired, he
called for aid; but men at the top
would not descend. When he had
cleared the sand about Jones' hips,
q slip of sand from the opposite
side buried Jones 10 his shoulders
again. McMinn kept removing the
sand, and after working an hour
and q half, be freed Jones. Both
were then drawn out Of the well.
One On Rio Grande
Salinas, aged fourteen, laborer, at
tempted to save Julia Ramos de
Barrera. aged forty, from drowning,
Eagle Pass, Texas, September II,
1925. Mrs. Ramos de Barrera fell
from a bridge into water ten feet
deep in the Rio Grande. Salinas,
who was much lighter than the wcm-
an, waded from the bank and swan
three hundred and fifty feet TO her.
She grasped him with both arms,
and he could not break away. He
then went under the surface Il
posely, and she released her held.
They rose. and Salinas then took
hold of her arm and wan aided bv
the current about eleven hundred
feet to shallow water. Mrs. Ramos
de Barrera was then unconscious
/. and did not survive. Salinas was
/. greatly fatigued.
! Lilley. aged thirtv-seven, cleaner
and dyer, died attempting 20 save
John T.. Bradbury. aged fortv-two,
clergyman. from drowning. Kings
land. Texas, June z. 1926. While
Bradbury was fishing in the Llano
river. he waded into deep water and
got into difficulty. Lillcy. who was
fully clothed, swan fiftv-five feet
10 Bradbury. Bradbury was much
excited and grasped Lilley. Both
went under the surface. rose within
a few feet Of each other, and then
sank and were drowned.
A bronze medal was awarded "a
each of the citizens. In the case Of
Lillev. the widow was awarded death
benefits at the rate Of SIS a month
with S. a month additional on &C.
count OF her daughter.