Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-10
Shocking Death Of r. A. Dunn.

The following is from the Randolph
Herald. Mr.. Dunn was we'll known in
this vicinity.
Fred A. Dunn, who started out Fri
day morning, april 49, we'll and
strong. to make the rounds of Ran
dolph Center with the meat cart from
the Pelton market. met with a fatal
accident in the afternoon between half
past one and two o'clock as he was
returning TO the Center village from
the old foundry road.
Laroy Pray saw the team jogging
by bis house apparently without a
driver, and thinking that perhaps
the horse had been left unhitched
and had trotted off on its own ac-
cord, went out to the road and
stopped it. A shocking sight con-
fronted him for Mr.. Dunn lay on his
back over the broken down dasher
with his head caught between the
right forward wheel and the shaft,
his right foot resting on the cart bot.
tom and the left one entangled in the
left forward wheel. The weight of
his body was hanging from his head
while irons on the dasher prevented
the body from falling farther over.
With each revolution Of the wheel
every spoke had pounded against the
head, all of them being marked with
blood, and the team had probably
gone about 40 rods with Mr.. Dunn in
that position. There was quite a
deep incision close to his right temple
and similar cut was found under the
right eye. The right ear was nearly
ground off by the action of the wheel
and that side of the head terribly cut
and jammed. Just how the fatality
occurred is not known.
Mr.. Dunn was still breathing when
Mr.. Pray reached him, but expired 81
most instantly. With considerable
difficulty the body was removed from
the cart, in which it was SO tightly
wedged.
Fred Alonzo Dunn was born in East
Albany. June 27. 1867, the son of My
ron and Louisa (GoaD Dunn. For a
short time he lived in Greensboro but
for the last 25 years he had been a
resident of Randolph.
Oct. 4, 1890, Mr.. Dunn married
Belle l.. Priest of Randolph, who
survives him with one son, Ralph, a
young man Of i9, now clerking in the
drug store of V. A Grant. Besides
his wife and son the deceased left a
half-brother, Forrest Dunn OF Hard
wick All own sister. Mrs. Charles
Wilson of East Hardwick, and three
half-sisters, Mrs. Ernest Page of
| Morrisville, Mrs. Charles Leavitt Of
! Craftsbury and Mrs. Fred Bemis of
North Ahing ton, Mass.
Mr.. Dunn was of a social, companion
able nature that made him we'll liked
by his fellows and gave him a wide
circle Of friends. He was much in
! terested in Odd Fellowship and was a
member of both Randolph and Excel.
sior encampment.
Regret for so untimely an end and
! deep sympathy for the stricken fami.
| ly were evident in an attendance OF
! 25O people at the funeral service
which was held in Bethany church at
9 O'Clock Sunday morning. The bust.
ness men of the village were present
and seated in body and in the pro-
cession marched 35 Odd Fellows ano
10 members of Fern Rebekah lodge.
Quantities of beautiful flowers were
massed about the casket and among
the tributes were a pillow from the
! Odd Fellows, a spray Of white roses
and white carnations from the Rebek.
abs, wreath from the Randolph fire
men and cycas spray from Mr.
Dunn's associates in the Peltor
market