The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-15
FRED FRINK'S BODY,

j. l.. Tuttle arrived from Angola, N. Y.
with The remains of Fred w. Frink on the
midnight train Monday night He was met
at the Junction by several friends OF the
dead man.
The remains were taken to the rooms of
the deceased on Langdon street and the fu-
neral will be held from there at eleven
O'Clock Wednesday morning. Rev. DR.. Nor
man Seaver officiating. The remains will
be taken to Roxbury on the noon train for
burial beside his mother. w. l.. and w.
A. Frink OF Attleboro, Mass, father and
brother OF the deceased, are in town.
The face OF Mr.. Frink was 80 badly brus-
ed in the fall that no one would recognize
him, The nose, neck and legs were broken.
His watch determines the time the accident
occurred. 1t stopped at sixteen minutes to
ten o'clock Friday evening. The glass face
Of the watch was not broken but the second
hand was off and there was dent in the
back of the case.
Mr.. Tuttle arrived in Buffalo at noon
Sunday and had to wait there for a train
until after two o'clock, arriving in Angola
about three. While waiting in Buffalo he
clipped a brief account of the accident from
one Of the papers and mailed it with note
to j. NJ. Boutwell,, thinking it would arrive
here early Monday, but Mr.. Boutwell, did
not receive the letter until this morning.
The paragraph did not contain anything
but what was covered by the letter sent by
Mr.. Shafer from Titusville, Pa, which Mr.
Boutwell, received Monday morning.
On arriving at Angola, Mr.. Tuttle found
it to be hamlet like Middlesex and after
hunting up the authorities he found the
body of Mr.. Frink had been laid out in a
general store. Mr.. Tuttle hurriedly com
pleted his arrangements and just missed a
train out of Angola which would have en-
abled him, had he been able to have taken IL
to arrive here Monday noon, AS it was he
left there at.six o'clock Sunday evening and
- Atn I-ff faIn
reached here AZ he did after trip of about
1000 miles.
Mr.. Tuttle visited the trestle from which
Mr.. Frink fell, He says it served as a sort
OF dry bridge over ravine and is about
seventy five feet long and fifty feet high
II carries double track and on either side
OF the trestle the side of a car standing on
the track must have been flush with the
outer edge of the trestle's frame work. A
station aud water tank is located at one end
so that II Mr.. Frink, as ID thought, attempt
ed TO get out OF the car TO go 70 the station
he went to his death into the ravine be.
low when he let go Of the side of the car to
drop, as he may have supposed, only short
distance TO the road bed.
There is another theory that Mr., Frink
may have gone TO the car door when the
train stopped for water at Angola and stood
there looking out when the train was start
ed. That in the sudden starting Of the train
he was thrown out and down into the abyss
below.
After ALL it can never be known just how
the accident occurred. Had it been in the
spring or fall during the heavy rains the
ravine would have held rushing torrent
Mr.. Frink's body would probably never
haya been recovered and his fate would
have added another to the worlds unknown
tragedies. As IL was there was nothing
but gravely bed below and there MIR.
Frink's body was found by "A track walker.
Mr. ruttle says that the people in Angola
told him that several men had been killed
in a similar manner at this trestle.
Mr. Frink carried life insurance policies
OF 81 900 each in the Mutual Life OF New
York and the Connecticut Mutual OF Hart
ford. He also carried an accident policy OF
S5, 900 in the Brotherhood Accident Asso-
citation OF Boston, an Odd Fellows com
pany. This policy may be reduced half in
settlement, as the manner OF Mr.. Frink's
death was not included in the class under
which he was insured.