| Show ONLY TEN PERSONS IN THE MEDAL LIST Honors Bestowed by Federal Government Upon Savers of Human Lives BY JONATHAN WINFIELD Washington Dec Dee M Heroes of the railroad track tr persons ps who at the risk of ot their lives lve have saved sved others from the th death deth on railroads are ar rewarded by federal government with wih medals meals of ot hon hen honor or The honor hoor is not lightly bestowed t wed for tor only ten t persons pr one of them a woman has been so 8 singularly honored by the United States Guinan of ot Middle Middleton She S is Miss Kl Mary Mar ton to N Y T Returning home borne from front work one cne cn day her way was wa barred bare by lowered gates gate at a railroad crossing Coming from opposite opple directions were two ex express express press pr trains traina tr They were to pass pl at at the street sUt crossing On the track was an anold anold anold old man bewildered by the shouts of ot warnings from the onlookers Moments were precious if It I he was to be saved The girl unmindful of her own dan danger danger ger ran r under the gate seized sei the old man in her strong grasp and ad supported him between the te tracks while the te trains trins whirled past pt with wit a sparse two inches on either 1 side ride of her he form Ie o The most mot spectacular hero is Charles Charle Arms Anna of Clarksville Tenn Tenn He lived lve near ner An the t Louisville Nashville railroad bridge on o the Cumberland river For two months mont Arms An had hd been confined to t his bed b with wih malarial malarial fever The doc doctors do tors tons bad hd just left lef after ater the morning visit when Arms was startled startle by a crashing noise nol A train tin had broken through the draw baggage and Rfd mall mail can cars being precipitated into the river The river owing to spring floods foods was wasa a raging torrent Risked Almost Certain Death Instantly I Arms Ars was wal out of bed bod be Par Partially Partially taly clothing himself he ran to the th river bank bk He saw the top tp of one of the mail mal cars c still sWI above water the two mail mal clerks and ad the clinging to it It They The were crying cring for help Those Tho who were gathered With Arms said si it meant ment death for anyone to attempt a rescue rue as no boat bt could live lve in the raging flood fo Arms ArD launched his hi skiff and called cled for fora fora a a volunteer Not one oe would woul take the risk rak ajl al declaring him to be crazy cray Alone he pushed the frail fri boat bat Into the whirling water and a avoiding the swiftly rushing logs and debris gained caloe the car cr top took tok the three thre men off of and brought theme them the safely to shore He was none no too soon 80 A few moment later lter the car settled below blow the water Four of time the t other heroes snatched children from instant death deth by climbing out on locomotives and lifting them from the track The Te case c of George Gerg H Pooh Pool of Grand Island leland Neb had bad a romantic turn He Hewa was wa employed as a a railroad fireman freman and saw IW a little child of S I years playing on the th track He went forward climbed down on the cowcatcher and seized seize the little one But his foot fot slipped his leg went under unde a wheel whet and with wih the child he was thrown down an embankment embankment Pol lost lot his big h leg married marrie the widowed mother mothe ot of the te child and Is la now clerk of his county Charles W Haight of Utica engineer saw sw a little child on o the track trac He ap applied apple applied plied the th brakes brake ran rn forward forwar and from the cowcatcher jerked jerke the child to safe safety safety ty Three Thre hundred yards further the t train trai stopped and an Height Haight was found clinging to the front of the engine wih with the little track walker pressed prele to his hi breast brt Frank Frnk Larson of Fremont Neb Nob a fireman performed a a deed similar to that of ot Pooh Pol but he held his footing and suffered no physical injury Freight Conductors Heroism In PIttsburg Ewar Edward Murray luray a freight feight conductor did the heroic hert deed de that made him the fourth of these the he heroes her heroes roes r He was wu riding on the footboard of a shifting engine At a street cross crossing cros tag ing he saw MW a brother and sister aged age 4 and 2 years er standing sting helplessly on the track The Th engine could not be stopped in time Jumping to the track he dashed duhe madly at the children throwing the boy by off of the t track seized sized the girl and made madea a successful leap lep for the running board bord Just as a the engine passed over the U e spot where were he and the te p children had been a moment before Edward McGrath McGrat a crippled station staton agent at a suburban station staton in Milwaukee kee ke Is I another of the chosen ten Tile The gates gate gate at the crossing had been ben lowered lowe and an a express train trin was ws approaching McGrath saw a child on the track She was wa dazed and made no ef et effort effort fort for to save ve herself Although a crip cripple crp pie the station agent unhesitatingly he cleared the went wet to her aid al Just Juit as girl from fm the track tak the pilot beam bem struck McGrath He was painfully but not nt seriously injured The girl was wa not Injured The Tt heroic acts act of f George H 11 1 WIt Wil Williams llama liams lim of Braintree Mass a railroad en engineer engine engineer gine and Charles Bannett emnett enet a railroad brakeman of ot III IU I were sim aim similar simIl ilar Il to that of Bennett Innet saved aved a woman at a a grade I crossing In iii his home town tow Williams i saved Ived tv tw two o w women omen mother and ad daughter In a letter leter when he bestowed a medal upon the hero President Roosevelt Roosevel said sid that it i was such acts of heroism her IBm as c t Williams displayed that made mae him hi an inspiration for his hi fellow Williams was ws the te engineer in rge of a 8 trIn standing at th tM the Quincy sIn sta station st tion Uen about abut to start for Boston Two To Toome v omen ome started to cross CI the tracks tk to board br his hi train n They did di not net n Me see H a atrain atrain atrain train bearing down upon Up them th WIt Wil Williams WI llama liams called to t them the of their tr danger da but bat bt they the did not heed h him But Bt the te flagman fn at the street crossing attracted his at attention tenton Jumping from fm the t cab cb of his engine engin Williams sprang lum across a the track and grabbed the daughter as the gatekeeper seised the mother the In Incoming incoming l t coming train trin missing milting Williams by a hairs breadth Edgar K George of Parsons Panon Pa PR made m a ft unique rescue rlue of a Polish boy by whose wh foot tot had h been b caught In a 1 railroad switch His attention was wu attracted by the boys bys cries crie and hear hearing hr hrIn lag ing In the oncoming train George Gerge knew knewt U It t to be bc b impossible to get gt the boys ba foot fot tree free fre He bent bt the te boys leg down dow out outside outside side of the track and aDd holding holing his hi own ownby body by over the boy as a shield let the th train tain pass pI The clothing was ws torn tom from tr Georges Gerges back bk by the car tides but out outside outside side aide of f a bruised leg le and an a great fright the child was w not Injured Before a medal to Is I ever r issued le the te in interstate interstate commerce come me commission makes thorough Inquiry into Int time the te circumstances of ot the rescue and upon its It report the t President Predent either ethe issues J or o declines decU to toIle Issue Ile one o of ot the t nations medals mels for tor life lifesavers lifesavers fe savers of the t railroads I |
