Zeehan and Dundas Herald Thursday 6 March 1913, AN IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE. It was the lot of the people of Queenstown on Tuesday afternoon last to witness the interment of the largest number of bodies that has ever taken place at one time in Tasmania, this was the burial of 18 of the 42 victims of that unfortunate and unexpected fire disaster at the North Mount Lyell mine on October 12th 1912. Their identity was satisfactorily established at the inquest held before Mr Coroner E. W. Turner, at the Queenstown Courthouse, on Tuesday morning, and their names were given as follows
- Thomas Maher, aged 31 years
- Thomas Gays aged 22 years.
- James William Smith aged 19 years.
- James Bolton aged 38 years
- Arthur McMaster aged 27 years
- James Thomas Hall aged 33 years
- Bernard McLoughlin aged 35 years
- Zephaniah Lewis aged 41 years
- Cornelius O'Keefe aged 26 years
- Herbert John Mitchell aged 23 years
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