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A CLERK’S REVENGE.
STARTS HUGE FIRE. Vienna, July 29. Schottek, a clerk who was dismissed for drunkenness, as a revenge fired a groat stack of timber at the Norheru Railway Station. A huge conflagration ensued, and 600 firemen, 3000 police, and 2000 railwaymen fought the flames for eighteen hours, and prevented them igniting a warehouse containing 2000 tons of benzine. Schottek was arrested. Timber to the value of £50,000 was destroyed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 135, 31 July 1911, Page 5
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71A CLERK’S REVENGE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 135, 31 July 1911, Page 5
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