Litter around railroad property was as much a problem in 1906 as it is today. A discarded, broken beer bottle in the Rattling Creek in the location of the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, almost resulted in the death of a barefoot boy who was wading in the creek. The story was told by the Lykens Standard, August 24, 1906:
FOOT SEVERELY CUT
Eugene Schreffler, son of G. W. Schreffler and wife of South Second Street, while wading in Rattling Creek below the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge Monday afternoon, had the left foot severely cut back of the toes by stepping on a broken beer bottle. The blood spurted from the cut and his affrighted companions were at a loss what to do. Finally, his brother Robert Shreffler took off his shirt and wrapped it around the foot, after which Samuel Barrett carried him home. The little fellow fainted several times from the loss of blood, and but for the timely arrival of W. V. Barret, who bound up the foot and rendered first aid, he might have bled to death.
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From Newspapers.com.
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