A CLERK'S REVENGE
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.
HE FIRES A RAILWAY STATION.
HUGE CONFLAGRATION
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
! VIENNA, July 29. A clerk named Schottek, who ha.i ibeen dismissed for drunkenness, in ivvenge set firo to some timber at t\w Northern Railway station. A huge conflagration resulted. Six hundred firemen, three thousand police, and two thousand railway men fought the flames for eighteen hours, and prevented them from igniting a warehouse which contained two thousand tons of benzine. Schottek was arrested. Timber valued at £50,000 was destroyed. " ■ ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10299, 31 July 1911, Page 5
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93A CLERK'S REVENGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10299, 31 July 1911, Page 5
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