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Show Firemen Rip Up Walk to Free Trapped Girl Cleveland, Ohio. Firemen and neighbors fought for nearly an hour to release a yellow-haired girl of three from a drain pipe in which she became trapped while at play. Axes and picks tore up a cement sidewalk and broke into the clay drain pipe to free the child. Just before supper Eleanor Banas was playing with her sister, Helen, eight, and some other children in a neighbor's yard. Near the back corner cor-ner of the house the drain pipe from the .roof had been broken off at the sidewalk. Eleanor was toddling along the walk when she stepped into the drain up to her hip. Immediately she set up a wail. Neighbors came running. Men going go-ing home from work tried to help, but the shoe had been caught below the surface. Someone called the fire department. Battalion Chief James Flynn showed her shiny tilings and got down on his knees to quiet her. Her wail subsided sub-sided to only a whimper. |