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Show uu iMEBALS FOR ISEROIC ACTS Carnegie Hero Commission Commis-sion Makes Public List of New Awards . Pittsburg, Nov 2. The Carnogle hero fund commission last night announced an-nounced a further list of awards for heroic acts . Tho last list was made public April 2G. The list, with medal awarded, etc., in part follows. William B. Hutton, bronze medal and $1,000 toward purchase of home. Hutton, foreman, helped to save William Wil-liam Porter, stockman, and attempted to save John Rykmnjis, foreman, and Mike Lewickl, laborer, from suffocation. suffoca-tion. Los Angeles. Cal , August 30, J911, George A. Blitoh, bionze medal and fl.000 toward purchase of farm. Blitch, a laborer, saved John 11. North-cult North-cult from suffocation, Palo Pinto, Tex., August 19, 1900. Thomas J. Gibbons, brouze medal and $1,000 as needed. Gibbons, si pit motorman, assisted In an attempt o save Robert M, Meek, miner, and Edwin Ed-win A. Sutton, assistant superintend ent, fiom suffocation, Cokodale, Colo , i February 10, 1911. Richard A. Mardlss, silver medal and $1,000 as needed. Mnrdlss, faun hand, attempted, to save Charles A Hill from suffocation, Nuco, Ariz., Juno 17, J 90S. II. Frank Flzor, silver medal and $1,000 as needed. FIzer, motorman. saved Thomas Bowen, foreman, and seven other men from a cave-In in a tunnel, Santa Barbara, Cal , April 7. 1912. FIzer discovered that a cave-In which would cause water to back to tho face of the workings, was imminent immi-nent two miles from the entrance. In order to varn the other mon ho waded back in the tunnel a distance of over :,400 feet, through water from 12 to 20 Inches deep. All escaped. i Edward W. Hargott, Sr., bronze medal and $1,000 as needed. Hargett, a restaurant -proprietor, attempted to rescue Nora N. HIgdon and Anna E. Wellborn from n runaway, Gloho, Ariz March C. 1908. Percy Walker, docoased, silver medal med-al to widow an' pension of $50 a month with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age or 16 Walker, a hotel proprietor, died while attempting to have Abram B Ilf-nrlkson, an automobile agent, from drouning. Keen Camp, Cal, February 29. 1912 George W T Snare, bronze medal I Snare attempted to save Percy Walk i er from drowning, Keen Camp, Cal Fobruaiy 29. 1912. Tho commission announced that It had given $15,000 to assist the local committee at MacCurLiin. Okla., lu caring for the forty-eight widows and 13G child) en who were dependent upon up-on the 73 miners killed In an explosion explo-sion at that place Ian April and $10,-1 $10,-1 000 to assist the committee at Jed. West Virginia, in caring for the 39 widows and SI chlldron dependent on the $2 men killed In the mine explosion explo-sion there last March |