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Show CARNEGIE HERO BIS GIN One Silver, 11 Bronze Medals N Awarded for Distinguished Acts of Heroism PITTSBURG, Pa., May 1. One silver sil-ver medal and eleven bronze medals were awarded heroes today by the Carnegie Car-negie hero fund commission, in recognition recog-nition of noteworthy nets by men and women wh sought to help others at their own peril. Fivo died, while two were disabled. To these last tho commission com-mission gave $2000 and $20 a month In one case and $1000 In the other. The commission also awarded ?5000 for other worthy causes. The five who lost their lives were R. William Donaghy, Philadelphia, dorwned whilo trying to save a young man from death in Elk Tiver at Town-point, Town-point, Md August 31, 1919; David E. Prince. Goldsboro, N. C, drowned whilo trying to rescue a boy from a flooded road near his home July 26, 1919; Frank J. Nagcl, East 1004 "Wal-' ton avenue, Spokane, Wash., drowned while trying to save a child from the North Branch of the Crow river at Kingstown, Minn., July 23, 1916; Paul K. Benedick, 14, drowned whilo trying to save a younger boy from -a creek at Hampton, Penn., Juno 26, 1919; William Wil-liam F. Carroll, Brooklyn, N. Y., 15, drowned whilo trying to rescue another anoth-er boy, September 21, 1919. Tho silver medal went to Frank W. Roberts, chief engineer of the Masonic homo at Elizabethtown, Penn., who 'saved three girls who, while wading, had got Into deep water and were drowning. Others to whom bronze medals were given wore: Miss Lorion C. Hallett, IS, school teacher of Dorchester, Mass., who saved another teacher from drowning at Silver Beech, Mass., August 21, 1916; Dominick Fauno, Elwood City, Penn., who saved two little girls from drowning at Zelienople, Penn., August 12, 1913; Robert Franklin Ivey of Diz-ney, Diz-ney, Ky who rescued a little girl from her burning home in Chayka, Tenn., November 24, 1915; Walter Ross of West Spencer, N. C, who stopped a i runaway horse and saved the occupants occu-pants of a buggy; George E. Peters, Columbus, O., who attempted to save a fellow workman who had come in contact with an electric wire at Groveport, O., March 11, 191S. Romance resulted from the efforts of Miss liilda M. Clark, of Baltimore, to save tho life of J. Fitch King, a student stu-dent of Huron, O., September 1, 1916. King was seized with a cramp wbile swimming In Lake Erie and was rescued res-cued by Miss ,iark, whoso name now appears as Mrs. J. Fitch King. oo |