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Show I WHEN DEATH IS MOST UNEXPECTED. Death can come in a most unexpected way, as was startlingly-proved startlingly-proved yesterday when Nathan H. Wood, 75 years of age, out of idle curiosity stood in City Hall park to witness the cutting down Df a tree. The old man took hold of one of the guy ropes which was ittached to the tree to guide the fall and he was warned back. But disregarding the warning and desiring to take a hand in the work, he stepped forward. The tree started down and the guy rope slackened and fell over the arm of a second tree. In its further drop, the falling tree brought the rope up taut with a snap. Catching Mr! Wood across the forehead, the rope flipped the victim high in the air and, in striking the ground, the neck of the unfortunate man was broken. Fate seems to have guided the man to where there was no sign of a stalking monster, but, in the twinkling of an eye, a fatal blow was struck. At the time an- airplane was soaring at a dizzy height and spectators spec-tators were remarking how many elements of danger entered into the flight of the aviator and how much safer it was to be on terra firm a. |