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Show Child Floats In Flooded Basement Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Bunker were " awaked about 6 a. m. Tuesday by a frightened cry from their son, Gail, 7, from the basement bedroom bed-room where he sleeps Rushing downstairs they found 7 feet of water in their ibasement, and the boy was floating on a mattress bobbing about close to the floor joists. Mr. Bunker, in his night clothes, dived in and rescued the child, who had wakened to find himself afloat. Gail and his brother, Garry, 6, I usually sleep together in the base-! base-! ment room. That nieht Garrv had a cough, and had been taken upstairs up-stairs about 1 a. m. Sometime after af-ter that the irrigation water had filled in the basement. It was a wonder the mattress had floated with the boy on, for it was so heavy with water it took three men to get it out of the basement. , An electric hot water heater, a deep freeze filled with food, and winter bedding and colthes stored were all covered in the flood. |