Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Curen, Kirk Van July 28, 1893
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Published in the Tyrone Daily Herald on July 28, 1893
BLOWN TO PIECES

The Terrible End of Kirk Van Curen, an Oil Well Shooter

Pittsburgh, July 28,-One man and two horses were killed by an explosion
of nitroglycerin, at Semple Station, near the Wildwood oil fields, on the 
Pittsburgh and Western railroad.   It is presumed that Kirk Van Curen, the young
man who was killed, was returning from the Wlldwood oil field with 
nitroglycerin, when tho explosion occurred.  W. 0. Bryant, who heard the 
explosion and ran to the spot, found a large hole in tho ground.  A short 
distance above, he stumbled over the carcasses of two dead horses horribly 
mangled and cut.   A few foot away, the wagon was found reduced to splinters,
while by its' side, lay a piece of a human log, tho solo remnant that could be
found of poor Kirk Van Curen's body.  He had been literally blown to atoms.

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