Two men who subdued a gunman in a crowded western Pennsylvania bar and a woman who swam through a flash flood to save an elderly woman in Pittsburgh are among 23 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.

Kirk Haldeman, 51, of Ligonier, and Michael Ledgard, 52, of Greensburg, saved several customers after 40-year-old Stephen Fromholz, an out-of-town laborer, allegedly shot a patron at a Ligonier bar July 11. Haldeman ran across the barroom and pushed the semi-automatic assault rifle upward until Ledgard, another customer, joined Haldeman in subduing Fromholz.

The suspect, who remains jailed in Westmoreland County awaiting trial on charges that he killed patron Donald Holler after arguing about what each wanted to watch on the bar's television, dropped his gun in the scuffle. The two men being honored Tuesday are credited with saving the lives of eight to 10 other patrons in the bar, plus an unspecified number of diners in an adjoining room.