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Wrong Side of The Tracks: The Forgotten Victims of The Bendigo Tramways
Wrong Side of The Tracks: The Forgotten Victims of The Bendigo Tramways
1900
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Child Fatalities
An Early Death?
Safety First
Electricity
Horsing Around
Not even two months later, Hanley
Evely was riding his horse along
Eaglehawk Road when something
startled the horse and it ran onto the
track in front of an oncoming tram.
The horse was directly hit and Evely
was thrown into the air with such
force that he landed on the front of the
tramcar before rolling off onto the
ground. He was not seriously injured
and he later found another horse and
rode home to tell his family the bad
news. The horse that he originally rode
was suffering from a broken back. It
trembled with pain for a while before
somebody produced a revolver. Two
shots were fired but they both missed
and the horse was in more pain than
before. A hammer was borrowed from
the nearby Little 180 Mine and a blow
or two on the head from this served to
terminate the beasts agonyxxxiv.
Although a human was not severely
injured, an expensive horse was killed
due to being hit with great speed by a
tram.
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Ibid, p. 28
Sensation at Bendigo, Mount Alexander
Mail, 16 Jun. 1903, p. 3
xxx The Cycling Fatality, Bendigo Advertiser, 23
Nov. 1906, p. 5
xxxi A Cyclist Killed, Age, 11 Dec. 1906, p. 8
xxxii Buggy Fatality, Argus, 23 Mar. 1908, p. 8
xxxiii Young Miner Injured, Age, 2 Jan. 1911, p.
6
xxxiv Sensational Tram Accident, Bendigo
Advertiser, 20 Feb. 1911, p. 5
xxxv Crashed Into Tram, Argus, 24 Jun. 1935, p.
9
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Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Kings, Keith, S, Bendigos Vintage Talking
Trams (Bendigo, Vic: Bendigo Trust, 1996)
W.H. Robinson, Steam Tram No. 5, 1892, in
Kings, Keith, S, Bendigos Vintage Talking
Trams (Bendigo, Vic: Bendigo Trust, 1996)