AN ACT OF REVENGE.
GREAT DAMAGE IX VIENN*
United Ptom Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 30th, 5.5 p.m.)
VIENNA, July 29.
Schottok, a clerk, who had been dismissed for drunkenness, in rovenge set firo to some timber at the Northern Railway Station. There was a hugo conflagration, and 600 firemen, 3000 police, and 2000 railwnymen, fought the flames for eighteen hours, preventing the igniting of a warehouse containing 2000 tons of benzine. Schottek was arrested. Timber to the valuo oi £50,000 was destroyed.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14109, 31 July 1911, Page 7
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