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Show Children Rescue Playmate From Boiling Cauldron Val Robb, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Robb, and Dan Bedingfield, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bedingfield, Beding-field, saved their playmate, little lit-tle 5-year-old Freddie Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Miller, from horrible death Saturday evening when the youngster fell into a steam trap half filled with boiling water, a few yards from his home in "Markshaffel Manor" in the south part of town. Freddie was rushed to the Milford Hospital where Dr. Herbert Her-bert B. Fowler treated him for multiple second and third degree de-gree burns. He was scalded by water and steam from his ankles to his waist, and has several smaller burns on his upper torso. Freddie and his father had just returned from a visit to the little lad's grandmother in Salt Lake, and after changing clothes Freddie went out to play with his pals. The steam pipes from the roundhouse, carrying steam to heat the homes in the emergency emer-gency housing section, enter a "steam trap" just south of the housing section. This trap was covered with heavy timbers and framed around the top, but was not timbered in on the sides. Due to the heavy snows of the past two months, the ground had softened, and when Freddie stepped near the edge of the steam trap the ground caved in, plummeting him into the boiling boil-ing cauldron. He screamed with pain, and his two companions had sufficient suffi-cient presence of mind to pull him from the trap before running run-ning for help. Had they become too excited to get the youngster out of the trap, he would surely have died from burns. Early in the week some apprehension appre-hension was felt over Freddie's condition, but at press time Thursday the report from Dr. Fowler was "doing very nicely, and much better than we expected, expect-ed, considering the severity of his burns." ' Mr. and Mrs. Jay Chrislensen and children are in Salt Lake, where the elder Christensens are attending a convention. 1 |