A FATAL FIRE
OVER FIFTY LIVES LOST IN VIENNA BLAZE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) VIENNA, November 28. Received December 2, 9.25 p.m. Fire destroyed a wooden shed near Vienna in which 108 Czecho-Slovak labourers were asleep. Fifty-four perished and 12 were seriously injured. The fire was caused through the explosion of petrol.
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Southland Times, Issue 18745, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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53A FATAL FIRE Southland Times, Issue 18745, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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