Lebanon County PA News - Accidents
Albert Shenk Barely Escapes Death
Albert Shenk, of Annville, one of the best known baseball players in the Lebanon valley, narrowly escaped death in terrible form at the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company's coke plant. Blinded by smoke, Shenk stepped backward into the machinery of the plant, and his right leg had already been drawn between two cog-wheels when a fellow-workman saved his life by cutting the belt operating the machinery. A large chunk of flesh was torn off the calf of Shenk's leg and he lost a large amount of blood.
[The Wellsboro Agitator (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania), January 12, 1910 - Transcribed by Nancy Piper]
John Eberly and Arthur Boger Injured. A.E. Bogg Charged With Reckless Driving
Two Hunters Injured Today
While on Way to Hunting Grounds, Auto in Collision With Truck on the Jonestown Road
Two men were injured and one was arrested following a crash, when the first accident of the hunting season, which was ushered in this morning in Lebanon county was recorded when a truck and passenger car collided four miles north of Lebanon on the Jonestown road, injuring two hunters early today.
The injured men are John Eberly, of 2038 Lehman street, West Lebanon, a cut on his back and body bruises and Arthur Boger, of Seventeenth and Fairview streets, Easton, Pa., formerly of West Lebanon, possible internal injuries and fractured ribs.
A. E. Bogg, of Kirkwood, Lancaster county Pa., driver of a Reo truck, traveling north, was unhurt. Patrolman R. E. Wenner, of the Lebanon sub-station who investigated the accident will bring information against Bogg, charging him with reckless driving.
Patrolman Wenner was informed that Seger and Eberly was about to trun off the concrete road when the Reo truck, attempting to pass, crashed into the passenger car and sent it up an embankment at the side of the road, pinning Boger underneath. Both men were treated by Dr. a. Gates, this city.
[Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon Pa., Monday Evening, November 2, 1931, Page 1 - Transcribed by Nancy Piper]
Pickowitz Family Injured in Car Crash. Baby (Thomas Pickowitz) Dies at G.S. Hospital
A 20 month old baby, injured in a car-truck crash near Grantville on Sunday afternoon, died this morning in the Good Samaritan Hospital here. The child, Thomas Pickowitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pickowitz of Mattoon, Ill., was the most seriously hurt of the family of four admitted to the hospital here after the accident. He had head injuries. The others hurt in the crash were Mr. and Mrs. Pickowitz, both 28 and a three-year-old daughter, Barbara. The driver of the truck involved in the accident, Ralph Tobias of Newport Route 1 was slightly injured. [Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Friday Evening, August 18, 1950 - Contributed by Nancy Piper]