Westmoreland County PA Archives News.....Tons of Rock Fall on Pipock & Angelo November 17, 1934
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Latrobe Bulletin November 17, 1934
Two men were injured, and one of them was brought to the Latrobe Hospital this
morning when tons of rock became dislodged from the face of a stone quarry above
Baggaley, where they were working and thundered to the ground near where the men
were standing. John Angelo and John Pipock, the victims, are both from
Hostetter. The men were knocked down and badly bruised, but are believed to have
sustained no broken bones. Angelo was brought to the Latrobe Hospital for an
  X-ray of his left leg, Apparently, it is fractured below the knee. Only the
fact that they were standing on the far side of a truck from the fall of stone
saved the two men from more serious injury. Much of the stone fell on the truck,
badly damaging it. The truck proved a sort of screen, which kept the major part
of the fall from striking the men,  but nevertheless sufficient from the debris
got past to knock them down. Almost 50 tons of rock fell. Angelo and Pipock are
employed by Adam Eidemiller, the contractor, and were in the act of loading
stone to take to the Lincoln Highway improvement project east from Laughlintown.


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Latrobe Bulletin Sat, Nov 17, 1934 ·Page 1

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