Victims of the Canonsburg Horror Had Just Planned for Their Wedding.
By R.J. Farrell
(Special Telegram to The Dispatch)
Canonsburg, Pa., Aug 27 -- Sidney Rittger and Miss Lillian Fisher, two of the victims of the Morgan Opera House panic, were not divided in death, even as they had hoped and planned to have been united in their lives. They were to have been married in a few weeks. Last evening to celebrate their formal betrothal they went to the moving picture show. Late in the afternoon, the two had vistedted a jewlery store where Miss Fisher selected her engagement ring and her intended husband placed it on her finger. A few hours later rescuers found them clasped in each others arms far down in the heap of dead.
Rittiger came here from Youngstown, Ohio, where his home was, and went to work recently in a local restaurant. Miss Fisher was employed at the home of John Cameron on White Lawn Terrace. Her home was in Glen Campbell Pa.