Posted on 09/22/2010 6:30:00 AM PDT by grame
A Grace College freshman volleyball player died Friday in a freak accident after a large tree fell on her, according to Winona Lake police. Police were called about midnight Friday to the 800 block of Esplanade Street, just west of the Grace College campus, after a passer-by reported hearing someone yell for help. According to Larry Ladd, an investigator for the Kosciusko County Coroner’s Office, Kastner and Mohr were sitting in a hammock strung between two trees. One of the trees was rotted at the base, and the tree fell. “It looked like possibly the weight of them being in the hammock just caused the tree to come over,” he said, adding that the base of the tree was about 20 inches to 24 inches in diameter.
The hammock was on private property, on the waterfront of Winona Lake, Ladd said.
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Horrifying! What a terrible job to have to call the parents.
agreed. How horrifying could it have been to be taking a walk along the lakeside to hear cries for help coming from beneath a fallen tree and find this scene. Unimaginable.
We just cut down a few around the home before the next expected to be a hard stormy winter comes.
And the one right over our sleeping area.
Rottin from the core out.
I suspected as it swayed in the storms but the logger where gathered around it like men who discovered gold once they downed it.
I went out to see what all the Male excitement was and it was one of those things that give loggers stories to talk about.
Actually, it's pretty unusual for a tree to not show outward signs, people just don't notice them.
There's a tree in front of my kids' school that's been dead for at least six months and every day 200 kids and their parents walk right by it or under it, and I'm the only one that's noticed. (Why it hasn't been removed is a complicated and boring story, but I've pointed it out repeatedly.)
Two people in one hammock. After dark, near midnight?
Might be more than just ravity shaking that tree.
A sad loss, sorry for the family’s loss.
got pictures?
“Coed” in the title is so outdated. Why not just refer to the deceased as a student? Why “coed”? It’s not 1960.
This is rural Indiana. We might not know yet that it is outdated! Or maybe it was the only word that would fit the space in the paper.
personally, the mental picture is enough for me.
My mother in law and father in law had a tree fall on them at Lake Tahoe while they were sitting on their bed in a Motel unit. Huge Ponderosa fell right through the roof and managed to miss both of them somehow.
A friend stepped out to get her mail and was looking at the beauty of the ice storm the night before. She stopped and felt she shouldn’t go to the mailbox. As she was looking, a huge maple fell over and drove the mailbox into the ground.
"I'm a random wind storm. Shakey, shakey!"
A sad loss, sorry for the family’s loss.
Indeed. Tough thing to get over.
Yep.
Call the city manager or the city attorney and it’ll get removed.
Sad. RIP.
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