Robert Edwin "Ed" Trinkle (1882-1913)

TRINKLE, KINNEY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/12/2016 at 18:53:15

From Nevada Representative June 20, 1913 (front page)

ED. TRINKLE KILLED.

Accident in Marshalltown Yards at Midnight.

Robert Edwin Trinkle, who was locally and familiarly known at "Ed," was killed in the cab of his engine in the railroad yards of the Minneapolis & St. Louis at Marshalltown a little before midnight on Wednesday night. He was fireman for that road and had bee for several years, and at the time of the accident he was on duty and had his head out of the cab window watching proceedings as the engine was being run up in to the coal chute. Unfortunately he was not looking in the direction in which the engine was moving, and his head was caught be tween the side of the cab window and the corner of a box car that was standing a little too close on a side track. His skull was crushed and he was killed so quickly that he made no outcry, and the engineer in the same cab did not know that anything had happened until Trinkle failed to answer a question, when the engineer investigated and found him dead on his seat. The coroner was called, but there was nothing for a doctor to do.

The deceased was a native of Fredericksburg, Indiana, where he was born Sept. 2, 1883, and he died as stated at Marshalltown, Iowa, June 18, 1913, aged 29 years, 9 months and 17 days. The members of his family yet remains near the old homestead; but he came out to Iowa as a young man and worked on farms about Nevada. Here he met Miss Lessie Kinney, who had been born and reared here, and they were married November 15, 1906. They lived for some time at Long Prairie, Minnesota, and they were back in Indiana for a time; but for the past three years and more they have lived in Marshalltown, running up to Nevada occasionally to visit her friends. During this time he has been a fireman for the Minneapolis & St. Louis and he must have been near the time for a promotion to be engineer. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive firemen and he was warmly regarded by numerous friends.

The funeral will be conducted from his late residence in Marshalltown, and Mrs. Trinkle will take the body back to his family home at Fredericksburg. His surviving relatives are his wife, four brothers and two sisters. He has no children.