FATAL ACCIDENT. Crushed by a Falling tree. Belmore, O., Dec. 25. The surrounding country was thrown into great excitement Wednesday by the report that Hopkins Johnson had been shot and killed by a lad named Emil Morris. But on learning the facts it was found that the particulars are substantially as follows: Johnson and young Morris went into the woods hunting, and getting about sixty rods east of Johnson's house they treed a squirrel in a basswood tree which they proceeded to cut down. Johnson did the last chopping, and young Morris went in the direction of the top where the tree would fall, to shoot the squirrel when he came out. When the tree started to fall, Johnson grabbed his gun and started to run around toward the top. The tree in falling struck a dry sugar stub, about twenty-five feet high and one foot in diameter, and threw it down with terrific force at right angles with the tree which they cut, striking Johnson on the top of the head, crushing his skull and breaking his neck, killing him instantly. About the same time young Morris shot at the squirrel, and loaded his gun again, and not seeing Johnson, started around to look for him, and found him lying upon his face, dead, and with the blood gushing from a ghastly would in his head. He at once, under the excitement, supposed he had shot him. He immediately ran to his father's house, about half a mile distant and told his father he had shot Johnson, which gave rise to the first report. Deceased was about 27 years of age, leaving a heart-broken wife and two little children besides a brother and three sisters who reside in Stark county, O., to mourn his untimely death. He was just making a start in the woods of Henry county and was respected; always very careful and on his guard, but in a time when he thought not death came in a most dreadful form.