Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-09 | Page 1 | Explosion in Stockton, Cal. Section

EXPLOSION IN CAL many persona wre severely injured and business houses destroyed stockton cal may ten or twelve persons were severely injured and three business houses in the cente this city were burned by an explosion was followed by alre last evening the explosion occurred in tho rear ot gerlach Mo shoe store on main street between hunter and eldorado at when the street was crowded with people the glass front of the store was blown out and anny persons passing were hurt by flying pieces of glass the wall 0 the western union building adjoining was blown in and operators and messenger boys were more or less hurt fire broke out and in a short three buildings were destroyed the one occupied by the western union or barber echop next to derlach doratha Mo ratha batore and unas sons jewelly store nobody can be to explain the pause of the explosion satisfactorily but t is believed to have been gas in the rear of th eshoo store fred gerlach the shoo dealer was in front of liw store and was severely hurt one analo broken and face find cut by plasa twenty avo persons in all were injured in the explosion tonight jack balara salara will probably dieas die as ho has a cut across the forehead which exposes the brain matter