Richard Wagner
Kentucky Post, Saturday, 5 March 1904, page 5
Richard Wagner, who was operated on at Speers Hospital in Dayton,
died Friday night at that institution. Wagner was formerly a fireman at the C N
& C power hose in Newport and went away from home to visit his brother at Cold
Spring. He was not heard from for some days by his wife and children.
Some two weeks later he was located on John Stephens' farm, near Persimmon Grove, about 15 miles south of Newport. The farmer who found him one morning fastened to a barbed wire fence, with his feet and hands frozen and in an unconscious condition. He was taken to Speers Hospital where amputation of the hands and feet was necessary. It was thought Wagner would survive, but Friday night he passed away.
The remains will be buried from the home, 1144 Columbia Street, in Newport.