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Show MEDALS FOJt TWO UTAH HERGES FROM CARNEGIE Becao.e the heroes own live given in a effort to av th live of fellow men, and with no knowledge of kith or kin h-ft behind, two Carnegie hero fund medal awarded te Utah men for bravery are unclaimed. The award, were md yeatrday at Pittsburg by th hero commission, to Augnst Wesley, 27 vr old, and Hugh Burn, SS years old! who lost their live at th Utah Copper mine, Bingham. November 81, 15)08, in aa effort to aave the lives of Italian miner who had bee overcome by poisonous a see. in th depth of th min. . . At th time of th death of Weslsy nd Burn little ws known of their family history and a yet ao relativ of either man ha been found whe eaa lay just elsim to the medal awarded by the commission. To dste four awards have , been granted Utah heroes since the estab-li.hment estab-li.hment of the Carnegie fund. Th Brut w.s awarded to Thomai Harris of Ogdsn, who risked hi lif to save that of another, and th aeeoad wa awarded to V. Kent Smith, foreman at th Utah Copper min at the time Wesley and Burns lost their lives, and who was himself him-self a victim of th desdly fumes. Smith', widow ws given the medal and a 475 a month stipend, and hi daughter, Cordelia, is allowed tS a month. |