No one saw him alive afterwards; but two weeks later some hunters found his body in the woods.

Apparently the tops of several of the trees he had been trying to cut down had lodged together, and to bring them down he had cut another large tree on which they hung.

This last tree must have started to fall suddenly.

Lumen ran the wrong way and was caught under the top of one of the lodged trees as it came crashing down.

The marks showed that he had tried, probably for hours, to cut off with his pocket knife one large branch that lay across his body.