The Washington Observer -- August 28, 1911 Grim Ending of Romance

Two Young People Killed in Theater Horror Just After Purchasing Wedding Ring.

Canonsburg, August 27 - Sydney M. Rittiger and Miss Lulu Fisher, who met their death in the theatre here Saturday evening, were to have been married within a short time. Miss Fisher’s home was in Glen Campbell, this state, and she lived at the home of John Cameron, White Lawn Terrace. Mr. Rittiger, formerly lived in Youngstown O., but had been employed as a waiter at Canonsburg. Last evening he and Miss Rittiger were together and early in the evening the bridegroom to be had purchased the wedding ring. It was decided to go and see the show at the Morgan opera house. The two young people were caught in the awful rush and their lives blotted out. Today they lay, cold in death, side by side in one of the morgues.