Show i WEDGED IN A SEWER PIPE A Game of Hide and Seek Which Nearly Resulted Fatally to a Little Girl A littlo girl while at play was wedged in a sewer pipe the other evening and while suffering intense pain was finally released by the breaking ct the crock c For a while it seemed that the child wonjd lose a limb or perhaps her life The accident j ac-cident occurred at the corner of Cherry snd Main streets Allegheny Ja Strung along the corner of Cherrystreet < are a number of clay sewer pipes The pieces are tbree feet Joae and tea inebee in diameter About duska crowd of o children among them Mamie Eaylor ° I J J uf 1 e U 1 Q J I Ja J 3 daughter of Councilman Kaylor Q1t the Fourth ward were amusing themselves scampering over the pipes This sport grew tame and some one of them thought there was moTh excitement in playing hIdeandseek Little 1IIamie Kaylor like the other children would crawl into the pipes and hideT A iter the game had proceeded for some time it was noticed by the other children that Mamie was missing While they were searching for her they heard muffled screams from the interior of one of these sections of pipe Running to it Mamie was discovered wedged in In crawling in she had doubled a leg and the knee joint and foot became wedged The other children tried to release the girl by pulling but their efforts only added to the pain she was enduring I en-during Home men were attracted by the cries of the children to release Mamie They carried the pipe into the saloon of John Dickreader Here they tilted the heavy pipe and tried to shake out tho little one but without success The child was fast becoming faint from pain and fright and the men decided de-cided break the crock This was a delicate job for a chance blow might break the childs leg or do more serious damage It wasdetermined to chip the clay pipe beginning at the end where Mamies feet were With a mallet the chipping process began when suddenly the crockiplit squarely in half and tho child was HberatedPitlsbUlg Chronicle Telegraph |