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Show GET MEDALS FOR BRAVERY Awards Made by President Roosevelt to Locomotive Engineers iVho Saved Lives. Washington. President Itoosevelt has awarded medals of honor to Sharlcs W. Halght, of Utlca, N. Y. ind Georgo H. Williams, of Bralntree Mass, locomotive engineers, who performed per-formed deeds of recognition under the law which provides for the beBtowol of bronze medals upon persons who by sxtreme daring endanger their own lives whllo attempting to save tho lives of others In railroad accidents or In preventing the loss of life. Halght is an engineer on tho Delaware, Dela-ware, Lacknwnnna & Western railroad. Ho climbed out on tho pilot of his engine en-gine and picked up a child from between be-tween the rails while his train was running nt n high rate of speed .at West Winflcld, N. Y April 2C, 1005. Williams dashed In front of a train for tho purpose ot saving a woman from being run over on tho Saville street crossing of tho New York, Now Haven & Hartford railroad, at Qulncy, Mass., December 21, 1005. Williams was struck by the englno of tho train and sustained injuries which confined him in a hospital for four months. |