Campbellsport News, August 26, 1920

PRINDLE KILLED AT MARBLEHEAD

  Swept over the edge of the cliff by the unexpected swing of a wagon tongue, Lynn C. Prindle, aged 34, an employee of the Union Lime Co. at Marblehead, plunged to his death 100 feet below, Monday afternoon.
   Prindle fell clear of the cliff but struck the rocky bottom on his toes, pitched to his knees and then struck on his chin fracturing every bone in his lower jaw and also his skull. Death was instantaneous. Both his legs were broken above the knees, his collar bone and shoulder blades fractured and one foot dislocated and broken. Coroner W. N. Candlish of Fond du Lac was called and pronounced the death accidental and no inquest was held.
   The accident came so suddenly and unexpectedly that eye witnesses are unable to state just exactly what did happen. The men had been using a drill mounted on a wagon body near the edge of the cliff to drill holes preparatory for blasting. A team was attached to the rear of the wagon to move the outfit and Prindle took hold of the pole to guide it. He was on the cliff side of the pole. The team made a sudden start, the wheel struck a stone and the pole swung out toward the cliff throwing Prindle over the edge and to his death. Some of the witnesses say that his heel caught or he would have been able to save himself.
   William Munn, forman of the company, together with Fred Geiger, Gus Gupke, Hugo Nast and Lynn Prindle, had gone to the top of the cliff to move the drill outfit from the edge of the cliff, where it had been used to drill holes preparatory for the big blast which was to have been set off Tuesday morning. The men had been all through the same performance on a number of previous occasions and Prindle was an old hand with the company. The men were warned to be careful, the foreman having issued extra precautions Monday.
   Prindle stood on the cliff side of the wagon pole when the team was hitched to the rear of the wagon. Whether the start was unexpected by him or the sudden swing when the wheel struck the stone so violent that he could not control the tongue is not known but the man was swept over the endge of the cliff and to his death.
   The body was taken to the Candlish undertaking parlors at Fond du Lac Tuesday evening, from where the funeral was held Thursday morning at 8:30 o'clock. Services were conducted at 9 o'clock at St. Louis church, the Rev. Fr. Mercer officiating and burial at Calvary cemetery.