A "WIRELESS" HERO.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10239, 31 August 1909, Page 4

A "WIRELESS" HERO.

BRAVERY TO BE COMMEMOKATF [By Electric 'Telegraph—Coi'yrioi (Per Press Association.) Received August 3,1, at 8.75 a.m. Ottawa, August 3(1 Eceles, the hero of the Ohio disasi was a native of Almonte, near Otta; The Government has determined commemorate his heroism. [The American steamer Ohio 1 wrecked at Steep Point, Alaska, cles, the wireless operator oil the I sel, was drowned with four others, stuck to his post until the room ' flooded and his message brought 1 steamers, which rescued 134 people ft the wreck.]