OBIT: Perry McINTYRE, 1918, Horrell, Blair County, PA

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FUNERAL OF PERRY M'INTYRE TODAY
Victim of Explosion at Horrell, Sunday Evening, Will Be Buried Today

  The funeral services of Perry McIntyre, the young man who died on Sunday 
evening at the Altoona hospital as the result of injuries received in an 
explosion at the works of the Standard Powder company at Horrell, where he 
was employed, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. 
E. McClellan at Hillcrest.  Interment will be made in the McIntyre cemetery.
  The deceased's father, Eli McIntyre, aged 55, who was also injured in the 
explosion, was burned chiefly about the face and shoulders, the burns being 
second degree.  He was also burned on the legs and abdomen, and his condition 
is now encouraging.  The boy had no chance for recovery as his whole body was 
burned, by the ignition of the powder in some unknown manner in the wheel 
mill where they were working.  There was not a great amount of powder went 
up, and the damage to the property was slight.
  The unfortunate boy was born near Horrell and was only 16 years of age, 
having lived in that part of the county his whole lifetime.  He is survived 
by his father and these brothers and sisters, Edward, of Hollidaysburg; 
Blair, of Juniata; Mrs. J. E. McClellan and Mrs. J. F. Evans, of 
Hollidaysburg, and a brother, Ralph, at home.  These step-brothers an sisters 
also survive: Flora Myers, at home; Misses Minnie and Nellie Myers, of 
Hollidaysburg; Mrs. A. E. Berkheimer of Lakemont; Frank Myers, of Horrell, 
and Charles Myers, of the 109th Machine Gun company with the American army in 
France.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, August 13, 1918, page 9