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Show FATAL NATURAL . CAS jXPLOSl House is Wrecked and Twenty-five-Persons Injured as Result of Gas Leaking from Stove. 4 i Two of the Occupants of tl "ateci' Building Were Blown Frc Beds Through the Roof nd Were Fatally lnj.-ed. Pittsburg. About "twenty-five persons per-sons wero Injured, two fntally, nnd a. dwelling houso wns torn to pieces, when nn explosion of natural gas occurred oc-curred in n houso locited at 103 Eltu street, this city, on Friday. In tho-flro tho-flro which followed two firemen woro sovercly burned. Tho fntnlly Injured: Mrs. Snrah Grossmnn, blown through tho roof; Jacob Ilcrgman, blown through tho roof. Seriously Injured: Threo members mem-bers of tho Grossmnn family; Esher Uolner, n guest of tho Grossmans. About fourteen othor persons In tho neighborhood received Injuries when, windows in their homes wcro shattered shat-tered by tho concussion nnd plastor fell upon them Apparently gns had been leaking from u kitchen stove nil night. Early Friday when n match was strucic la . tho lower portion of tho houso to 1 light tho stove thoro wns n torrlflc ox " plosion. Tho houso was torn to pieces. The roof was blown high Into tho air and the front and roar of tho dwelling collnpse. Mrs. Grossman nnd Jncob Ilergermnn, n boarder, nppnrently received re-ceived tho full forco of tho explosion, both being blown from their beds through tho roof. They wero fntally injured by tho subseguont fall nno. fire. Other members of the families which occupied tho houso woro thrown from bed by tho concussion nnd Bovercly injured. Mr. Grossmnn, who struck tho match, escaped with a severo but not fatally Injury. Occupants In nd-Jolnlng nd-Jolnlng houses wero Injured nnd for t. time tho ontlro neighborhood was panic-stricken. |