Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-05 | Page 8 | Man Killed as Tree is Felled

I Nathan H. Woods of Salt Lake 1 Meets Death in Peculiar I Accident' jn Nathan H. Woods, aged 75, accl-M accl-M dentally met his death yesterday I afternoon at tho city hall park when a rope which was being used in felling W a treo caught about his head In a y manner that is thought to have brok- en his nock. Tho accident happened at 4:10 o'clock. Woods, it is roport-H roport-H od, was at the City Hall park watch- ing City Troo Inspector Walter I RIchoy and several men who woro en-a en-a gaged In felling a largo sliver poplnr a tree at tho southeast end of' the park. Ij As tho tree was about to topple, he I approached but was warned by Rlohev I to stay away. "I'll lend a hand with the rope," Wood sis reported to have said " Immediately after the old man had a taken hold of the rope, tho treo m crashed to the ground, the-rope catoh-1 catoh-1 Ing adross the forehead of Woods, I hurling him to tho gi'ound. j Dr. H. W. Nelson, city physician. and Dr. Ezra C. Rich, wore called, to a the scone, and tho ambulance aum- j miuiii-u. xuu iuun ui?u aooui iiiicon , minutes without regaining conscious-" conscious-" nesa. An idcntlficatin tag, bearing the , namo "Nathan H. Woods" was found in the pocket of the dead man. A small book, bearing his namo and his address as'Salt Lake, as also found. Detective Wultcr Mooro and Robert Chambers Investigated tho accident, and removed the man's personal effects ef-fects from his pockots after being authorized au-thorized to do so by Judge D. R. Roberts, Rob-erts, who was present. I They found tho book and tho Identification Iden-tification tag, several pocket knives, a purse containing $5.4 7 and other small articles. About two hours after the accident had occurred, police officers discovered discov-ered that Joseph Woods, a nephew of the deceased, was living at 953 Twenty-third street. Woods said that his uncle was a wanderer and that ho was survived by a daughter named Alice, whoso last namo he had not known since her marriage. She is thought to reside at Salt Lake, or at some place immediately west of Salt LaJte. Efforts of Salt Lake police to locate the daughter woro not successful yesterday. Tho body was removed to tho Lindquist mortuary. oo