Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — Leo Miller Killed Instantly. [ARTICLE]

Leo Miller Killed Instantly.

The Accident Occurred at Chicago, This Morning. A brief telegram from Chicago this morning brought to W. J. Miller, the well known painter, and his wife, the terrible news that their only son, Leo was dead. The telegram simply read. G Leo has met with an accident, and is dead.” The news was a terrible blow to both the afflicted parents, and especially so to Mrs. Miller. None of the details of the accident were given in the telegram but today’s noon edition of the Chicago Daily News, has this account. Leo Miller, a law student, 23 years old, slipped and fell while alighting from an Illinois Central train at 57th street early today and struck his head against a guardrail of a car, instant death resulting from the blow. The young man had' stepped from the train before it had fully stopped and lost his footing on the slippery platform. He fell between the platform and the cars, striking his head against the handrail, but did not go under the wheels. Miller’s body was taken to his boarding house on 55th street.

Leo was an unusually bright, promising and popular young man. He recently graduated at a college at Albion, Mich., and was now studying law and acting as a collector, in the law office of a relative in Chicago. The afflicted parents and their daughter, together with Mrs. A. Woodworth, a relative, and Bert Brenner took the first train for Chicago, at 9-55 a. m., after the receipt of the telegram. They will take the body to Battle Creek, Mich , their former residence, for burial.