Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-24

gAHg o. five le0D990eN.
Two years aev, says a Corning dis
patch, i've young men came from the
Voods Of Name, vhero they followed
the occupation Of choppers. and found
in the lumber regions Of
Pennsyfvania, in tie vieinity Of Aaliey's
mill. They were George and Wm. Jen-
ninRs, brothers; Arthur Fraley, Andrew
Shalcfo8 and Hiram Stephens. The
fFss week they we're in the region Geo.
Jennings Was 0aking logs 20 . rollvay.
Az he vas engaged in fastening chain
around q large log, standing o. the low
ee side Of 10 - il lay on the top OF .
small hin. Il vas started in some man
nes, and, before be could get out Of the
way, IL knocked him down and, rolling
over him, crushed him 70 death. His
father had been killed in Q similar man
ner in Maine. A few months afterward
Arthur Fraley aad Wm. Jennings were
hunting in the woods near Valleys mill.
Thsy had shot Q deer, and, after load
inG their gums, walked up to whore tie
deer lay. Fraley stopped down beside
the deer and Jennings stood behind
him. while they were in these posi-
tious Jennings saw favn come leapinR
along the edge Of the ridge Close BY
them. He quickly cooked his gun. The
click of the hammer caused Ffaley 70
look up. Seeing the fAWn, he suddenly
rose to his fest. jennings gun Was
dischar Led at the same moment, and the
rail- passed clear through Fraley's bead.
killing him instantly. A few weeks later
Jennings vas engaged With others III
driving logs, and, while be was breaking
. jam, the jam gave way UNEXPECTEDLY
and he was carried down with 1t and
croshed 20 death. After the death of
VIM. Jennings Andrew ShalcrOss de-
clared that he could not remain in such
An apparently fatal spot, and obtained
work in Potter county. Last week the
news vas received that he had been
killed by . falling tree. Hiram Ste
phens was nov the only ono alive of the
1--WE young lumbermen who had como
together to Pennsylvania. He had re-
manned at MAlley's mill. Last week,
when he heard Of the death Of Shall
cross, be resolved to return - Maine.
He had agreed T. work at the mill until
the Lat of February, and. a. his employer
would not release MIN before that time,
he made his arrangements to 70 when
tu0 tlku0 0ARbA00e AWV W0OA0 0&HO .
young man named 0eoeQe Cough went
to Aailey's mill to work a. q tesmster.
On Monday last there was bot little for
the teams 70 do, and, as one of the chop
pens was sick. Cough was sent to the
woods to chop. He and Hiram Stephens
vent together. They were to work on q
job about three miles from the mill.
Googh was q green hand at chOpping,
and until about 3 o'clock in the after
nosn had simply trimmed the branches
FROM the trees that Stephens felled.
Stephens had Just felled q tree, and suR-
gested to Cough that he try bis hand q
one. Cough selected . medium sized
tree near by and began shoppinQ. Ste.
phons proceeded to trim the one that he
had feIled. and paid no attention &c
Coughs work. After while he heard
GouQh shout to him to run, NJ he t4el
would fall in such way a. to strike him
With q branch. Stephens started, oar.
ryinR HE Ak In front of him. He had
taken but few steps when he stumbled
and fell. Cough was giving the last
strokes on tho tree with his AZ, and $50
ing that Stephens did not rise after fall
ing, he ran 70 his aid, forgetting tn
danger from the tree. Before he reaShe(
stephens the tree fell with q crash, and
Cough was caught beneath the YER,
branch against which he had Wafne(
his companion. He vas pinned on BIZ
back to the ground, the limb lying acrOa
his legs. No part of the tree touched
Stephens, though Cough did not lie si,
fest from HIM. When the tree fell Ste
phens raised his head and saw GOuRl
lying beneath the branch. He rose {,
his feet, and then Cough saw the bloo<
vas pouring in q stream from q fearfu
wound in Stephens's stomach. He haa
fallen on the upturned blade Of bis keei
AK. Stephens staggered toward hi
companion, and, though it was eviden
that he was dying, began choppinR o.
the limb with the intention of releasing
Cough. II possible. He gave . few fee
bic aud random blows, aud then, turnin
to Cough, he laid the AZ within his reacI
and said:
I'm done for. George! You'll have +
out yourself out"
He then staggered OF q few feet an,
fell TO the ground dead.
After long and difficult labor Gouel
succeeded in cutting Of the limb viii
Stephens's Ak and in pushing of hi
legs that portion Of il which held hin
fast. Then for the 6rst time he kne,
that one Of his legs was broken. Their
% cabin, occupied at night BY mum
ber OF choppers, about q mile from
whore Cough lay; and az night va
coming on and there was little hope o
any one passing that way. and none tina
he could survive night spent peostrat
on the snow, be determined to dra
himself through the woods to the cabin
When the choppers returned to thei
cabin, about o'clock, they found G0aQ
lying unconscious ON the door. His fiu
gers were torn and bleeding and hi
clothes torn. Snch restoratives a. Wer
at hand served 70 revive Cough. and b
vas s0on enabled 70 relate his terribl
experience Of the afternoon, and th
awful fate Of y0onR Stephens. Cough
fingers were xorn to the bone by olateh
ing In the snOw and ON bushes to dra
himself along to the cabin. He va
taken at ouce 10 4alley's mill, and vii
doubtless recover. Stephens's dead bed
was found BY party Of choppers wh
went in search Of Il, and will Be burie