Show blast fire razes gusher home sheriff checks arson possibility investigation was cont continua inui ing wednesday by the sheriffs her iffa office of an explosion and fire that leveled an unoccupied house in gusher monday night sheriff norman R fletcher said that he suspected arson anon as the house was the third vacant one to be destroyed la in gusher in the past six weeks week the building vacated saturday by a tenant was owned by william mcclure gusher and was insured for A motorist driving by told officers that the explosion lifted the root roof off the house dropped it back into place and was accompanied by blue flames seconds later the house was engulfed by fire the driver said he saw aw si ft figure running from the bouse and across a field just ut as the explosion occurred later the sheriff found a reversible brown and red hunting cup cap in the f fold field the sheriff riff noted that the electricity in ia tho house bouse wa wag turned off and therefore etore a short circuit could riot not hay have caused the blast j |