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Show FATAL NATURAL CAS EXPLOSION Uouie is Wrecked and Twenty-firo Pertons Injured at Result of Gas Leaking from Stove. Two of the Occupant of the III Fated Dulldlng Were Dlown From Their ! Dedt Through tho Floof and Were Fatally Inj. ed. ' Pittsburg About twenty nvo persons per-sons wero Injureil, two fatally, and a, dwelling lionso wan torn to pieces, whin nn explosion of natural gna oo curred In n home locitid nt 103 Kin. street, this city, on Friday. In tho flro which followed two firemen wciu aotcrely burned Tho fatally Injured Mr Sarah (IroMman, blown through the roof; Jacob llergman, blown through thn roof. Sertooely Injured Three member mem-ber of thu (IrtMamnn family; llnhcr Holncr, a gueat of tho (Iroutnan Atiout fourteen other ierona In tho neighborhood rccelted Injuries when window In their home wtro that-lered that-lered b the concunnlim nnd plaster fell upon them. Apimreull) gas had been leaking from n kitchen atoto nil night liirly Friday when n tiintch was ttruck In the loner portion of the hoiifn to light Ihu alote there wa n terrific ci ploelnn The bouse wan mrn to piece. The roof wa blown high Into thn ntr nnd the front nnd rear of the dwelling; cn!lape Mrs tlnmstnan nnd Jnool llergermnn, n boarder, npparcntly ro celt ed the full force of tho explonlon. Imth lielng blown from their bed through tbe riKif They were fatally Injured b the nulmcquent fall nnn fire. Othtr member nt the families which occtipkd tho house wero thrown from boil by the cnnciiMlon nnd severely Injured Mr flroenmnn, who atruck thn match, escaped with a severe but not fatally Injur) Occupant In nd-Jnlnlng nd-Jnlnlng hntiec were Injured and for time the cntlro neighborhood was panic pan-ic stricken |