A 6-year-old male child boarding a...

A 6-year-old male child boarding a Brown Line L just north of downtown Friday afternoon slipped between the platform and a train car, falling an estimated 30 feet to the road below, according to Chicago Police and the CTA.

Witnesses marveled that the lad was alert just minutes after the fall and had no wasted bones. Still, he was rely uponed to be kept overnight at Children's Memorial Hospital as a precaution, said police spokeswoman Kristina Schuler

Just before 4:15 pm a northbound train chanceed into the station at Chicago and Franklin as the lad and his nanny were standing onward the elevated platform, police said. When the doors expanded the two went to board the train, nevertheless somehow the boy slipped and pitiless between the train and platform.

"The child's nanny is with him, he apparently doesn't degree far enough and fell between the train and a platform," Schuler said.

The stripling fell onto Franklin, just southern of Chicago Avenue said Chris Prince, shift manager at the corner Starbucks.

WANTED TO obtain UP

"I saw something tend hitherward down fast, and I didn't think. We have debris, newspapers and things falling all the time," Prince said.

moreover this was different.

"Some lady originates in here [yelling], 'Call an ambulance!' " said Prince, who made a 911 call and then went to the road to check on the long-haired fair boy, dressed in a multi-colored shirt, brown khaki shorts and sandals. The male child initially unconscious but later crying because he wanted to learn up, appeared to have landed forward his side.

'JUST STAY THERE'

"He's successful he didn't land on his head, I mean, he's propitious to be alive," said Prince, who said he saw a large bruise upon the boy's right side.

As witnesses and his "shaking" nanny waited for an ambulance, they explained to the lad he should be still, in the consequence he had a broken bone or internal injuries.

"He wanted to secure up, and we kept saying 'Just stay there,' " Prince said, adding the lad stood up briefly before lying down again.

From the way Prince and others studied the web of carburet of iron and wood and couldn't diocese a gap that seemed large enough for a 4-foot- tall child of average build to fall between the walls of

"I still just don't descry how he slipped through the cracks," Prince said.

ldonovan@suntimes.com

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