Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Wagner, Horace E. March 1915
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Clearfield Progress    3/31/1915
Horace E. Wagner   

A New Kensington newspaper gives the following particulars of the accident in 
which Horace E. Wagner, formerly of Clearfield, met his death in that place. 

Horace E. Wagner was instantly killed, when thrown from an automobile on the 
Saltsburg road near North Besaemer, at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. The machine 
was owned and was being driven by Alex Brown, of Mew Kensington.

Mr. Brown, accompanied by Wagner and William King, of Arnold, had gone to East 
Liberty to visit friends and were returning home.  They left New Kensington at 
5 o'clock and had stopped in East Liberty but a short time. On the return trip, 
Brown is said to have turned aside to allow another car to pass while rounding 
a sharp curve.  The machine skidded in the mud and the rear wheels struck a 
cement culvert, the jolt throwing Wagner out.  Wagner was occupying the rear 
seat alone, and Brown instantly stopped the car, and he and King ran back to 
Wagner, who was found lying in the road lifeless.

The body was lifted into the car and brought to Hankey's morgue in Parnassus, 
where examination disclosed a broken neck, and crushed skull as the cause of 
Wagner's death.

Wagner was thirty years of age and was a carpenter by trade. He came to this 
city about a years ago from Clearfield, Pa., where his parents now reside. 
Eight years ago he was married to Miss Ruth Mohney, of this city. His wife had 
returned home only last week from a sanitarium at Hamburg, Pa.  Besides his 
wife and parents, two small children survive—a boy aged seven years and a baby 
girl. 

Wagner was treasurer and steward, of the Loyal Order of Moose, and was chairman 
of the memorial committee. He had many friends both here and in Clearfield who 
will be shocked by the news of his death.  

At the inquest held yesterday afternoon, Deputy Coroner Harry Ewing, of 
Allegheny county, rendered a verdict of accidental death, after examining Mr. 
Brown and Mr. King as to the details of the accident.

Funeral services will be held by the L. O. O. M. this evening and private
services at the Wagner residence at 2:30 Saturday afternoon, conducted
by Rev. J. E. Scheetz, pastor of the Reformed church. Interment in Union 
cemetery Saturday.


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