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Show FREAK IN SEQUOIA FOREST Tree Trunk That Has Stood for Sixteen Six-teen Years Severed From Its Base. Out in California there is a tree trunk which has stood for the last 16 years entirely severed from its base, says the Wide World Magazine. The stump is 15 feet in diameter, and the trunk towers 75 feet in the air. This lemarkable freak is located near the Sequoia forest reserve in Tulare county, coun-ty, California, and was sawn off by lumbermen for timber. Through some ..miscalculation, when the cut was finished fin-ished the tree still held its position, and dynamite was resorted to to bring it to the ground, which accounts for the deep gash on one side. After the first charge of the explosive had been ignited the tree still remained standing, stand-ing, and it was discovered that the entire trunk had been shattered by the discharge and was therefore useless use-less for lumber. Accordingly, the work was stopped and the giant has remained upright, withstanding some of the severest wind storms that the state has known, held in its natural position by its great weight. |