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Show MAN IN VAULT IS SAVED BY A BOY Salt Lake, June 30 But tor the rare presence of mind of 1 0-year-old Walter Parker Merrill of 279 N street Arthur Thomas an employee of the gas company, probabl) would have died of asphyxiation yesterday. As It is Thomas is in a critical condition at St. Mark's hospital Thomas was working on a sas valve at Sixth avenue and J. street, and in somo manner the connection became loosened and the escaping gas overcame him. Ho was found ly-inu: ly-inu: on the floor of the vault by the Morrill lad, who was passing Tin' boy hurried to a neighboring house and the police were notified. How lonp; Thomas had been lying in the vault is not known When the police arrived ho was rescued from the vault and hurried to the emergency hospital, where the pulmotor was applied to restore respiration res-piration When Dr. Sprague arriw it was thought that Thomas was dead, but with the aid of the pulmotor pul-motor he was revived within thirty-minutes. thirty-minutes. Fumes of pas drawn from Thomas's lungs by the pulmotor filled fill-ed the small room, and it was with difficulty that Dr. Sprague and his assistants "worked. Dr. Sprague said that in the absence ab-sence of further complications or a reaction Thomas would recover. He Uvea at 124 B street -with his parents. |