OBIT: Daughter MILLER, 1884, Red Lion, York County, PA

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Smothered in Bran

Wednesday, about noon, a bright and interesting four-year old daughter of Wm. 
Miller, of the firm of Miller & Bro., grain and flour dealers, at Red Lion, was 
missed from her home, and search for her was immediately commenced.  Every 
street and avenue in Red Lion was searched, but not the least clue to the 
missing child could be found.  Finally the father, Mr. Miller, went to his grain 
warehouse, and after looking through that building examining every nook and 
corner in it, and not finding his child, he took a pole and stirred through the 
bran in the bin, where the little girl was discovered dead and cold.  The child, 
in its meanderings, evidently went to the third floor of the warehouse, and, 
climbing up, fell through the hopper into the bran bin on the floor below.  It 
was buried two or three feet deep in the bran, and was found about 3 o’clock in 
the afternoon.

York Democratic Press, October 24, 1884