Obituary
LUMBERMAN CRUSHED TO DEATH BY FALLING TREE
Waverly, January 26, 1914.
Clarence J. Howell, 43 years of age, and a father of a good sized family was almost instantly killed when a tree fell upon him in a lumbering camp near Lockwood at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon. Coroner Betowski, together with newspaper representatives from this city undertook to make a trip from Lockwood in automobiles and became snowbound until late tonight.
Howell was working in a timber tract owned by his brother-in-law, Wesley Ackley, located several miles north of this village, and near Lockwood, a small station on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Extensive timbering operations are carried on in this section, and Howell who lived in the vicinity was engaged in some of these camps during the present winter. While felling a tree and after one of the big trees in the Ackley tract of timber had been cut so that it was ready to fall, Howell in some way got in the path of the falling giant and was unable to get out of the way in time.

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KILLED BY FALLING LIMB
Spencer, January 29, 1914.
Clarence J Howell was instantly killed while working in the woods on a lumber job on his brother-in-law, Wesley Ackley's farm near Lockwood, Monday afternoon at 3:00.
Mr. Howell and Mr. Ackley were cutting a tree, in the top of which was a dead limb that they did not notice. While cutting on this tree the limb was jarred loose, fell and struck Mr. Howell on the head, killing him instantly.
He was taken to his home on the Ed Van Atta farm at Dean Settlement and coroner Betowski, of Waverly, was notified. After viewing the remains and learning of the way the accident happened, he decided that an inquest was unnecessary.
Mr. Howell was 43 years of age and leaves his widow and a family of 9 children, his mother, Mrs. John Howell and several brothers and sisters.
His funeral was held today at 2:00 at the Methodist-Episcopal Church at Lockwood, the Rev. G M Whittmore of Spencer, officiating. Burial at Lockwood.