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Show Tragedy Narrowly Averted f ! y r' i , , If RESCUER, SPOT WHERE GIRL NEARLY DROWNED ' " Fred Simons views scene of near tragedy Youth Saves Sister's " Life With Respiration Uses Boy Scout Training on Child Who Had Been Pulled From Pool in Back Yard Had "big brother" not been laid up at home with an injured in-jured ankle, Marjorie Simons, 13-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Simons, 2513 Fifth East street, might not have been alive Tuesday. . Marjorie toddled out the back door of her home and later was missed by her mother. Mrs. Simons Si-mons searched, saw Marjorie's legs sticking out qf a shallow pool formed by a flowing well In the Simons' back yard. The child was pulled out unconscious, and the city fire department rescue squad was called. Meanwhile, her brother, Fred, captain of the Murray high school football team, who was home with a sprained ankle suffered In a game last week, began artificial respiration he learned as a Boy Scout Marjorie had been restored to consciousness and was crying lustily lus-tily when the firemen's squad arrived. ar-rived. "The child was so young that she certainly would have died before we got there had not there been artificial respiration." said Fire Lieutenant A. R. Ward and Fireman Fire-man R. A. Watts. They said they believed the girl was out of danger, barring complications from exposure. |