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FARMER KILLED WHEN MOTOR CAR SCARES HORSES

WAGON CRUSHED ANTON BERGELT AFTER HE IS DRAGGED 400 FEET BY RUNAWAY TEAM

Anton Bergelt, 65, farmer living four miles northwest of Florence, was killed yesterday afternoon at a bridge over the Minneapolis & Omaha railroad tracks on which he was working. Witnesses said a touring car sped across the bridge, frightening a team of horses attached to a wagon on which Bergelt was standing. He reached for the lines, fell, was caught under the wagon and was dragged 400 feet by the runaway horses. He dropped free from the wagon finally and it ran over him. The body was mangled.

Sheriff Endres sent two motorcycle deputies to the scene and they obtained from witnesses the number of the license of the automobile, which did not stop.

Bergelt is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter. Working at the bridge with him were Axel Johnson, foreman of a railroad bridge gang; Jack Banta and Russell Wallace.

George Best, 4120 North Twenty-sixth Avenue, who came along on a truck just after the accident, obtained a doctor.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~