Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-27
ONE DEAD,7 HURT
BY FALLS ON ICE.
Special officer Lives Only Few
Hours After Slipping on
Frozen Sidewalk
PATROLMAN INJURIES HIP

One man is dead and seven persons
are in hospitals suffering from falls due
to the ice coated sidewalks.
The dead man is:
William Connolly. fifty eight years
old, 1914 South Fifteenth street
The injured are:
William Coulter. sixteen years old,
AZ Laboratory Hill; ST. Tlmothy's
Hospital, internal injuries and lacera-
tions.
Patrol Sergeant Alexander Martin,
13 South Mole street; probable fracture
of hip. Hahncmann Hospital.
Harry IT Cohn. nine years old, 253S
Federal street: Polytechnic hospital,
| fractured knee.
Zeb u. Forhman. eighteen years old,
q negro. 2036 Rodman street; Poly
clinic Hospital. lacerations of face anG
chin.
Barney Elman. twenty eight years
old. 2519 South Philip street. sustained
dislocated right shoulder in a fall on
the CLASSY pavement near his home. He
was taken to the Methodist Hospital.
! Morris Kelner. fifty nine years, was
taken to the same hospital suffering
! from a dislocated left shoulder sus-
| tained in fall near his home, 342G
South Third street.
WalZer Washington. thirty three
years old, o029 Garrett street. sprained
! his right ankle in a fall on the ice
He was taken TO st. Agnes's Hospital.
Connelly's fall occurred yesterday aft :
ernoon shortly after he arrested q boy
for diSorderly conduct in the motion
picture house at Broad street and Sny-
der avenue. where Connolly was en-
ployed as special officer.
Returning from the station house.
he slipped on the sidewalk in front of
the theatre. He was taken to St
Agnes's Hospital but died few hours
after being admitted.
The Coulter boy was injured when
he lost control of his sled while coast
ing down the steep hill on Calumet
street The sled skidded into a Mana =
yunk car on Main street
Sergeant Martin slipped and fell on
the sidewalk near his home while or
his way to his work at the Eleventh
and Winter streets station this morn
mig.
Relief Is Here
Philadephians found some comfort
. when the temperature rose to IL de-
e greeS at l o'clock. Most of the ice or
b the sidewalks melted.
: However, wires are down. or not
e working properly. 1t will remain above
freezing all day-but cold area ovei
: the Great Lakes is expected TO arrive
. sooner or later-then more freezing
e weather. The rain ceased at about
s 80 o'clock this morning.
Chief Donald NJ. Hepburn. of tn,
CT clpopiDV hurpnu iS taliDy nd
vantage of the thaw to clean up thai
section of the city bounded by the two
I rivers and Race and South streets.
! Twenty five flushing machines bcgar
:. work in this district this afternoon. TIL,
fiushers were followed by street clean,
ing bands made up of municipal ant
contractor employees.
Dirt was cartcd away, and snow ant
: ice swept into manholes to be carrie,
, away through the sewers. The mel
= will be kept at work all night, if tn
:, weather permits. Other districts vii
: be cleaned beginning tomorrow.
. When old JupP Pluve got out hi
. whitewash brush this morning. however
4 and painted fresh coat of nice. shin
ing ice over the streets and pavement
he did a good job. Especially down a
the Market street ferries. The hill lead
ing from the ferries to Front street wa,
so slippery and smooth that hundreds o
! persons were compelled to negotiate tn,
climb in the street.
Power Turned On
! Power is turned on again in all tn
!! shops of the Hog Island shipyard. bu
: the plant is not in full operation toda,
because many of the workmen canno
. remain on the shipways.
: Fogs, driving winds and rain tina
= turns into ice as soon as it falls. hav
= all resulted in glass like coatings of tn,
shipways and the steel vessels bein,
constructed there.
In the shops where it is warmer an,
there is protection from the weathe
things are running normally again.
= The shutdown was the result of tn
breaking down of Philadelphia Elec
trio Co. power plant that supplies tn
shipyard with electric power. This i
the first break in the history of tn
! ward. 1t occurred Sunday