GREAT CONFLAGRATION.
i i HUNDRED BUILDINGS DESTROYED. , 300 PEOPIE INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Vienna, May 18. A fire at Pressburg, Hungary, rendered 8000 persons homeless. A fireman and a child perished in the lire, and many persons were injured. (Ece. May 20, 0.15 a.m.) Vienna, May 19. A hundred buildings, including several of historical value, were destroyed at Pressburg. 'The fire involved a great part of the old Jewish quarter of the town. The panic-stricken Jews refused to break the Sabbath and extinguish the fire until the Rabbi granted them a dispensation. Three hundred people were injured.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1754, 20 May 1913, Page 7
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97GREAT CONFLAGRATION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1754, 20 May 1913, Page 7
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