Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16
TWO HEADS CRUSHED.
A Man Who Has Carried Seven Bull
let's in His Body Must Answer
FOR A PROBABLE DOUBLE MURDER
The Deed Done in q Combat Between
Trainmen and R0wdies.
NEwSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcHI
LATRoBE, juno ia riot occurred on
Ligonier Valley train tonight which re-
suited in the death of one person and will
likely terminate fatally to another. This
evening about o'clock some 80 or 40 en-
ployes of the Booth & Finn stone quarries
boarded a Ligonier Valley train at this
place. Soon after the train pulled out it
was found that two Of the quarrymen, John
Higgins, and Patrick Diamond, had not
purchased tickets at the Latrobe station.
Conductor Kuhn approached the men, when
quarrel began, the men evidently having
been drinking The train was stopped and
Kuhn ordered the men to get of. Higgins
and Diamond refused to vacate the car
John Lape, . brakeman; and Harry Knox,
construction laborer, undertook to eject
the offending parties, when others of the
quarrymen took up the fight Irwin Nor
row and Thomas Horne demanded of the
conductor and brakemen that Higgins and
Diamond be allowed to retain their seats.
Then began a terrible fight. The train was
at stand still, and stones and clubs were
freely brought into use. Fully so men figured
in the fray. many quarrymen being ar
rayed against the trainmen, who were great
ly Outnumbered.
Morrow and Horne fought like tigers, but
the trainmen stuck to them pluck1ly, and
when the two quarrymen found they were
being overpowered Morrow picked up q
piece of scantling and struck John Lape, a
brakeman, on the head. crushing in his
skull. Then turning to q man named Knox
Morrow Knocked him down, splitting his
skull also. While Morrow was engaged in
this murderous work his companion, Thomas
A.vtA Al 49,
car, the latter having rallied to the aid of
the trainmen. Several of the Quarrymen
were knocked down and brutally kicked.
three three, Of them being seriously injured: Both
train and disappeared in the darkness OFF,
GERS Fry and Cannon, of this place, organ
lied posse of citizens, who soon hunted
the two men down and had them lodged in
Jail in Greensburg late tonight.
John Lape the brakeman, who lives at
Ligonier, is dying, If not already dead. He
became unconscious before bis removal
home. He was % years Of age and unmar-
ried. Harry Knox, also Of Ligonier is prob
ably "a years of age. He will hardly re-
cover.
John Morrow, who will probably have to
answer the charge Of numbering the two
men, Is we'll known to police circles in every
town In the county. He is only 81 years of
age, and formerly lived at Mt. Pleasant,
where he was a terror to the community.
About l3 months ago he became involved in
an alteration with Ed Davis, OF that
town. over girls affections. Davis
whipped out a seven-shooter and fired the
contents of every chamber into the body
of Morrow. Strange to say, not one of the
bullets struck vital point. Davis was
tried and sentenced to one year in the
Huntingdon Re1ormatory. He was released
Monday and Morrow was the first to greet
him upon his arrival at the station at La
trobe.
The latter carries four of the bullets fired
by Davis in his body to this day. His
widowed mother lives at Latrobe. Thomas
Horne. the companion OF Morrow, is 26 years
of age and has wife and two children at
Latrobe. He has been considered o WORTH
less fellow for years, and his young wife had
been compelled to work to support herself
and children.