Extract from the Gazette, 1738
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 14, 1738.

We hear from Birmingham in Chester County, that some time last Week a young Man was unfortunately kill’d in the following Manner. He was falling a Tree, which lodged against another, when the But End left the Stump with a Spring, and took him in the Body, drove him 8 or 10 Foot, and then mash’d him against the Earth. He had only time to say, Lord have mercy on my Soul, and died immediately.

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