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Show YOUNG BOY IN WILSON LANE KILLED BY A TREE FALLING Ray Covi, Working With a Brother to Uproot a Cherry Tree, Has His Neck Broken Feet Held in Soft Mud Prevent His Escape When He Realizes That He Is About to be Crushed. Ray Covi, tho lG-ycar-old son of Lewis Covi, a farmer residing In Wilson Wil-son Lnne, was accidentally killed about 10:45 this morning, near tho family home, when a large cherry tree fell, breaking his neck. The family resido in the third houso east of the Wilson meeting house, on the north side of tho street. The boy had gone with his 23-year-old brother, George, into an orchard about one-quarter mile cast "of their home on tne south side of the road to dig up a largo cherry tree. The treo was about 50 or CO feet from tho road. It was about 25 fcot high and covered with blossoms. The two had dug around it to a depth of two feet and finding the digging rather difficult with the short shovel .which they had been using, George said thai he would go over the hill and get a long handled shovel, while Ray continued con-tinued digging with tho Bhort shovel. After the elder brother had gone he was overtaken by two little girls to whom Ray had promised some flowers earlier In the day. The children chil-dren had ibeon out to where the boys were digging and they tola George that his brother was lying asleep under the big cherry tree. For a moment he couldn't understand 9 what they meant and then, becoming alarmed, hurried back to the scene and was horrified to find that the tree had fallen and crushed his brother under it. He tried to lift the tree off tho body of the boy, but It was too heavy and he then began to dig under it, in the meantime telling tho children to go Into the road and to hail anyone who might be passing. Within a few minutes nearly a dozon men were on the scene, the tree was removed nnd the body of the boy was laid tenderly upon some coats which the men had placed on the ground nearby. Dr. R. E. Worrell, who had been making a call in the vicinity was notified of the accident and going to the scene, he examined tho body and pronounced lift extinct. His examination, he said, revealed that the fourth cervical vertobra had been broken. When found, the body was lying face downward and it it presumed that, while tho boy had been digging, his feet had become mired into the mud and when he saw the tree falling, fall-ing, being unsuccessful in getting out of the hole quickly enough to escape: lie had thrown himself face downward down-ward to avoid as much of the blow as possible. |