Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-02
is KILLED WHILE
FEELING BIG TREE
Carl Swanson, Askov Youth,
Loses Life in Northern Mich
igan Camp.-Skull is Crushed
by Falling Limb.

The sudden accidental death of
Carl Swanson, Fl, who was injured
by falling limbs from a felled tree
Friday and died Saturday in hos
pital at Ontonagon, Mich, came as
great shock to relatives and friends.
In company with his brother, John,
and Albert christensen, Carl Swan
son left for the camp in northern
Michigan about three weeks ago.
1t was Friday forenoon that he and
his brother, John, were telling a big
hemlock tree about four feet. in diam
eter. When it fell, branches were
broken off by coming in contact with
other trees. Carl had lodged three
such falling limbs, but stumbled, and
the fourth limb caught him on top
of the head, caving in the skull. He
was Immediately taken to the hos
pital at Ontonagon by his brother,
John, Albert Christensen and other
boys at the camp, who did all they
could for him and remained at his
bedside until the end, about "a hours
after the accident. He did not re-
gain consciousness after the accident.
The body was shipped to Askov, ar
irving here ON the afternoon flyer
from the north Sunday, accompanied
by the grief-stricken brother, John,
and Albert Christensen.
Carl William Swanson was son
of Mrs. Mary Swanson and was born
on the home farm, AZ miles north
of Askov, on June 26, 1905, being past
81 years. His father died when
Carl was a small child of three years
and, like his other brothers and sis
tiers, with a good mother to guide
them, he learned early to take ahold
and be useful. In 1918, just follow
ing the Moose Lake forest fire, a
brother, Edward, died from flu.
Surviving are his mother, two sis
tiers, Eva and Mrs. Raymond Ellison
Dorothy of Ray, Mimi; and three
brothers, George, John and Frank.
Funeral services were held from
the home and Wilstad Swedish Lu-
theran church Monday afternoon,
Rev. o. c. Fillinger of Bruno, off,
ciating. The pail bearers were six
young friends of Carl: Svend and AL
bert Christensen, Tilman Larsen, AL
vim Jensen, Adolph Walta, and Leon
ard Malone, the latter now of Chicago.
The body was given its final resting
place in the Wilstad cemetery. SYM
pathy is extended to the bereaved
ones in their hour of sorrow.
A friend of the family sent the
following selected poetry to the
mother of Carl.
"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in, faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store"
AWAY
l cannot say and / will not say
That he is dead-he is just away!
With a CHEEKY smile and a wave of
the hand
He has wandered into an unknown
land, N-. ST..
And left us dreaming, how very fair,
1t needs must be since he fingers
there.
And you-O you, who the widest
yearn
For the old time step and the glad
return, ...
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There, as the love of
here.
Mild and gentle as he was brave
When the sweetest love of his life
he gave
To simple things: where the violets
grew,
Blue as the eyes they were likened to-
The touches of his hands have strayed
AS revenently as his lips have prayed;
When the little brown thrush that
harshly chirred
Was as dear to him as the hooking
bird.
And he pitied as much as a man in
pain
A writhing honey-bee wet with rain.
Think of him still as the same, say;
He is not dead-he is just away.