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Ju ban’s Radical relates the following: “Our friend Elias Lamb, who now resides in Vermillion county, this State, called on us on Monday, and related the following curious and nearly tragical incident, which happened in his neighborhood. A man left his home to hunt coons. As afterwards appeared, he ‘treed’ a coon up a large sycamore, fell another tree against it and ascended about forty feet to the top. He found the coon had gone into the branch of the tree, and while standing on the top of the main trunk chopping the limb, the decayed wood wood sunk beneath his feet—the tree a short distance below being hollow—and he fell to the ground iuside the tree! Not returning, search was made; there being a slight snow, he was tracked to the tree, and his ax being found sticking where he struck the last blow at the top, the nature of the case became apparent When ‘cut out1 he was insensible from cold, having been in the tree from Saturday morning to the Sunday evening following. Although considerably bruised and lacerated in failing, he was not dangerously hurt, and is in a fair way to recover, The place where* the accident happened was about a mile from any habitation. Had it not been for the snow, the chances are that no trace of him would ever have been found, at least not until long after life had become extinct.”
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Martinsville Morgan County Republican
Martinsville, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1872
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