John P. Burn saved Isaac Janko from drowning, Atlanta, Georgia, May 18, 1913. Isaac, 3, fell through the opening in the street curb into a chamber which gave entrance to the shaft of a sewer. The top of the shaft was under the street 18 inches from the curb, and the chamber was under the sidewalk. From the chamber Isaac slid or rolled over into the shaft and fell to the bottom of the sewer, which was 19 feet below the street level. Burn, 36, engraver, who knew nothing about the sewer, entered the chamber, crawled over into the shaft, and descended by pressing his knees and back against the walls. He heard running water, but it was too dark to see the conditions. The water was in a one-foot depression in the middle of the bottom. There were traces of sewer gas present, and Burn felt a slight rawness in his throat. He spread his feet and got a bearing on the bottom at the sides of the sewer and followed the course of the water 10 feet to where he found Isaac. A garden hose was lowered in the shaft, and Burn, holding Isaac, was drawn up. Isaac was not seriously injured. 11086-1132
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