The Sheep Dog Attack at Gibbon
A Northern Pacific freight agent survives a brutal encounter with a working dog while managing livestock shipments.
E. L. Hoppell, traveling freight agent for the Northern Pacific, returned yesterday morning from Gibbon station, where he assisted in loading a train of sheep bound for eastern markets, and where he was severely bitten by a wild sheep dog. Mr. Hoppel is limping from his injury, which came near resulting in blood poisoning. He states that he had a hard fight with the animal.
“Mr. Hoppel is limping from his injury, which came near resulting in blood poisoning.”
This incident highlights the hazardous nature of early 20th-century labor in the livestock industry, long before modern workplace safety standards or reliable medical protocols for animal bites became the norm.
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