Magnolia Men Dig Three Hours, Rescue Boy, 2
MAGNOLIA, ARK.-When a two-year-old boy, son of a Mid-Valley Pipeline employee, tumbled down a 12-inch-diameter hole, Sohioans from Transportation's Magnolia Area here were among the first on hand for a dramatic rescue.
Pipeliners Robert Morris, James Smothers,
and Jess Baldridge, and Field Gauger F. E. (Nick) Nichols were on the scene
within 15 minutes. They could hear the little boy whimpering at the bottom of
the ten-foot hole, but found it impossible to remove him with a rope.
They set to work digging him out. Within
half an hour more than 50 men had gathered. In three hours, working carefully
to keep from collapsing the hole, they
rescued the boy—frightened but unhurt.