A very sad accident occurred on the Northwestern road about a mile and a half out of town last Friday afternoon. Lars Nelson’s section gang was working on the track when a special freight train hove in sight going east. The men stepped to one side and naturally faced in the direction the train was going to keep the dirt out of their eyes as the train passed. Mr. Nelson noticed a loose door on one of the cars and dodged it as it flapped outward. Jesse Miller, one of the workmen, was some distance down the track and did not see the door. As the car passed him, the door swung out and hit him in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground. The other workmen went to him and finding him senseless believed he had been killed instantly. They sent for Coroner Pierce, thinking an inquest would be necessary, but the facts were so clearly established that Mr. Pierce did not think it necessary to hold an inquest. Besides Mr. Miller then showed some signs of life, he was breathing and moaning so they placed his body on a hand car and brought him home to the grief-stricken wife. Drs. Stewart and Murdoch took several pieces of skull from the wound but saw there was no chance for the poor fellow to live. He died at about 9 o’clock some four hours after the terrible accident. The funeral was held at the Danish church at 2 o’clock Monday, and interment made in the Blair cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to this country about two years ago, having just been married a short time before. They were both hard workers and Mrs. Miller had been helping with the janitor work at the post office to raise money for a visit to the old home in Denmark. They seemed happy here, but were yet homesick for a sight of the old home. Now that Mr. Miller has been taken from her so suddenly she will undoubtedly return to wear her widows weeds among the friends and the fields of her childhood days.

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

Note: The headstone is engraved Moller Find a Grave Memorial #22218568