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Show TOT SWEPT THROUGH CULVERT IS UNHURT "Gee, I'm Lucky," Laughs Five-Year-Old Lad. Erie, I'a. Rescued by a crowd of more than 1,000 persons after he had been washed through a 1,000-foot culvert, cul-vert, 30 inches in diameter, diminutive Joseph Nevin, six, was duly impressed with his unusual experience. "Gee, but I'm lucky, ain't I? I bet my mommy and daddy think I'm dead!' These were his first words as ha shivered under the coat of Charles Green, driver of the car of the chief of the Erie fire department, who took him to St. Vincent's hospital. Physicians at the hospital declared the boy had been uninjured and he was taken to his parents. His mother wept. His father's voice was husky with joy. The boy slipped and fell into the rain-swelled open end of the culvert in Ash street near I'arade and Thirtieth streets. Several people saw him fall and soon a great crowd, augmented by the Erie firemen, began hunting for him. They searched frantically for more than two hours before tLey learned he had been rescued. Large blocks of wood, swept through the culvert by the raging waters, made his progress hazardous. He was tossed against the rough edges of the concrete con-crete tube, but finally emerged at the opposite end, shivering but smiling. "The blocks hit me but I shoved them off as they went by with the big waves and kept my head close to the top," he told firemen. "It was a wonder won-der one of those big logs didn't knock me for a goal, but I guess my dodging helped." |