BIG FIRES.
AN ACT^OF VENGEANCE. HUGE TtMBERiTACKS SBT ONS SIRE. A MAN HkESTED. By Telegraph.— Press A«oclntlen.— C#pjttrt». VIENNA, 29th July. A elf tk named Bchottek, who 'had T>een dismißsed for drunkennese, in re* vence fired the timber (stacked at lh« northern railway station. A huge conflagration resulted, 600 fire« men. 3000 police, fend 2000 railway nteft fighting the flames far eighteen hourp. The "fire was prevented from igniting an adjoining ■warehouse ,in vduch weva 2000 tonß of bdnfcine, Schottek was a.rrest'ed. * ».^¥*^ m ' l)er w&« valued at £50,000. CALIFORNIA^ DISASTER, A TOREST^S FLAMES. NEWIFoRK, aeth July, A forest conflagration is radius in tn* San Betnadifto Moontains, which lie between Los Angelea and the Ooiorado Desert.
Sefv-er*! hfeftltli resortfl have teen wiped out, and the 400 men who aw tighting aw trouble to cope wHh tie flame*,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 7
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136BIG FIRES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 7
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