Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1916 — $1,000 for Nine Lives. [ARTICLE]

$1,000 for Nine Lives.

Des Moines, la.—W. CL Allen, a West Des Moines high school teacher, has received a Carnegie hero medal and |I,OOO in cash for bravery in saving nine persons from drowning at Athens, 0., in 1907. Allen was a student at Ohio university at Athens, when the Hocking river overflowed and carried everything before it. Allen and a companion, using a small skiff, rescued nine persons.