Death to the Careful

Death to the Careful

Snug in their beds, guests slept in Brno's Hotel Europe last week, little recking that a clerk named Knop lay awake in a room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came up, herded them back inside. Lightning struck the church steeple three times. The men stampeded over the women & children going two ways: 1) out, 2) toward the altar rail for God's protection. Twenty-one women and children were trampled to death. Four men who had fought their way to the metal altar rail groveled clutching it. On the third stroke the lightning electrocuted all four.

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