On Thursday, James Steurer, 79, was sitting on his bed tying his shoes when a gas explosion leveled his house and sent him and the mattress flying into the driveway. A natural gas explosion leveled a house Thursday , and another six blocks away on Saturday leveled a second house and knocked a neighboring one off its foundation , in a town 60 miles northwest of Chicago . The sites were fed by two separate gas lines and Northern Illinois Gas calls the explosions coincidences . They found nothing unusual at 100 homes and a school within a mile radius of the explosions . The blasts ' causes may not be known for weeks . No serious injuries resulted . In Thursday 's explosion , a boy 's mattress carried him to safety when it was sent flying into the driveway .
A natural gas explosion leveled a house Thursday , and another six blocks away on Saturday leveled a second house and knocked a neighboring one off its foundation , in a town 60 miles northwest of Chicago . The sites were fed by two separate gas lines and Northern Illinois Gas calls the explosions coincidences . They found nothing unusual at 100 homes and a school within a mile radius of the explosions . The blasts ' causes may not be known for weeks . No serious injuries resulted . In Thursday 's explosion , a boy 's mattress carried him to safety when it was sent flying into the driveway .