Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-18
TOLL OF 5 LIVES
THE GRIM FORFEIT
OF DAYS MISHAg
-Four Victims Perish in Fin
That Destroys Home aDd
One Man Is Murdered
Several Minor Accidepl.

Five persons are dead and ssv,,.,
In hospitals today as the result q, 4.
Sunday toll Of accident and crIms =
Of the dead had their lives snnt,.a
in the third floor OF their home. Ua sosa
street, in full view Of several bu.....
in the street imploring them IN a.
The policemen were blocked from si'
to the rescue by fire that made IN. x.
and stairways Of the house inpas..k 4.
The dead are:
Fritz Skubinsky, 55 years old
Helen Skubinsky, IL years old.
Rachel skublnsky, % years old
Bella Skubinslsy, IL years old
Jacob Godinsky, 40 years old, s2s ~.
Thompson street, a crippled watebm,.
He was murdered.
The four surviving members Of q.
Skubinsky family are at the Penn,s
vanla Hospital and three of them ~.
die They are Mrs. Bessie skubln,t.
SO years old; Rosie, 10; Edith. IA ..5
William. i6 years old. her children
FAMILY TRAPPED BY FIRE.
Fire started early yesterday morning h
Skubinsky's drygoods store on the An,
floor william was aroused by the cract.
ling of flames only when the fire Va,
rapidly sweeping upward through IA,
building. The lad dragged his parents ana
his brothers and sisters to the third-stor
windows. Samuel Green, who lives nsrt
Ias, lie O.. t..f- . .
FIVE shots from a revolver. This attracted
street Sergeant Frank OBrien and Polls. 4
men FiGenstecher. Weber and johnson
The bluecoats formed circle under ths
windows and called on the members Il
the family to jump.
Not until the father had been overcoma
by smoke and collapsed over window
ledge did the mother jump. Three Of he,
daughters followed. The mother struch
an awning cornice and then the awnlnx
pole. Sergeant O'Brien caught her. Fiken.
stecher, who caught Edith. was badly
hurt, but probably saved her life.
William. the son. vainly tried to for,
the other members of the family to jump
He was so nearly overcome by smoke
himself that he found it impossible to
force through the window the uncon-
scious body of his father. Finally the id
half fell. half jumped, himself. and ef.
capped with slight injuries. He becam.
delirious at the hospital.
Firemen from the I'd and De Lancer
streets station took out the bodies and
lowered them down ladders. The -four
bodies were huddled at the base Of At
windows. their heads close together. An
their clothing had been burned off.
MAN BEATEN TO DEATH.
Godinsky was one of two watchmen b
the plant of the F. w. Tunnel 6 Co
Wheatsheaf lane and Gaul street. Hse
was found dead by Frederick Trlnkel, De
other watchman, early yesterday mon.
ing, at the foot of stairway leading IA
a bridge connecting two buildings Of M
plant. 4
The back of Godinsky's head had ben
crushed.
The preliminary investigation iisciossi
no evidence of foul play, and tho desh
was thought to have been accidental untl
noon yesterday, when a workman In tha
plant came across the iron pipe marked
by blood stains end with bits Of hsF
clInging to IT.
Some hours later. Detectives BelshaN
and Oleyniczak, of the murder squad, AZ
rested two men in connection with M
crime They are being held at the Bel
grade and Clearfield streets station house
So far the police have not learned tn
mctive for the murder. Godinsky Is sad
to have had no relatives in this counuy
where he had been about 10 years.
small sum of money in the mans pocksh
was untouched.
FIVE OVERCOME BY GAS.
Four persons were overcome yesterda'
by lnhaling coal gas and another by nla.
minating gas. They are Mrs. clauas
Ranspacher. 60 years old, and her thf.s
Anna, Elizabeth and Irene o.
1910 North I'D street, and Charles Fes1.
1908 West Ontario street. A physlelAl
restored the mother and her dapghtes
after working over them about an hoa.,
and Vogel was revived at the samar''AA
Hospital by a pulmotor.
Walter Byler, of 5i2l Merton aVsnua
had a remarkable escape from aeau
when his automobile went down the heaeI
ing Railway 75-foot smbankment near W
Pencoyd bride at City Line avenue 2,
emerged from the wreck of the maehns
with only broken collar bone and mlh%
injuries, and was able to walk about
few hours after being admitted 20 y
Hospital,