1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster

Casualties

This list of victim details is compiled from the following sources:

Names - Archives Office of Tasmania Tasmanian inquest number 13222
Ages and places of origin - Queenstown Cemetery's records, these details completed by families of the deceased
Albert Gadd's information - Archives Office of Tasmania Tasmanian inquest number 13169.

Name	Status	Age	Address/Place of Origin	Notes
Valentine Bianchini	Single	48	Austria	Identified by his earring
John (Jack) Bolton	Single	38	Gormanston, Tasmania	Resident of Gormanston, Tasmania
Samson Rodda Bray	Married	33	Bendigo, Victoria	Wife and one child living at Bendigo, Victoria
John Bourke	Single	24	Victoria	Mother lived at Daylesford, Victoria. His body was the last recovered.
William Henry Bowker	Married	42	Ballarat, Victoria	died 1 September 1919, aged 49 leaving a wife and 7 children
Louis Burke	Married	43	Sweden	Wife residing in Hobart, Tasmania
John Bawden	Single	25	England	Resided at Linda Valley, Tasmania. Had relatives living in Truro, Cornwall, England
John Creeden	Married	46	Westbury, Tasmania	Identified by his gold crowned front tooth
James Davey	Married	37	Victoria	Wife and four children living at Linda Valley, Tasmania
Albert Mansfield Gadd				died 20 February 1913
George Gard	Single	21	Queenstown, Tasmania	His married sister lived in Queenstown, Tasmania, and his mother lived in Victoria.
Thomas Gays	Single	22	Victoria	Gave up his place in the last rescue cage to a married man.
Charles Green	Single	22	Launceston, Tasmania	Native of Launceston, Tasmania
Francis Henry Guy	Married	27	Victoria	Wife and three children residing in Queenstown, Tasmania
James Thomas Hall	Married	32	Mount Lyell, Tasmania	Brother rescued from the 1,000 ft level. Native of Campbell Town, Tasmania. Wife and two children living at North Lyell township.
Eden Aloysius Hills	Single	21	Hobart, Tasmania	Native of Hamilton, Tasmania. His sister lived in the area, whilst other relative residing in Hobart, Tasmania.
William Horne	Married	45	Black Lead or Buninyong, Victoria	Married with six children
John Jenkins	Married	28	Hobart, Tasmania	Wife of twelve months residing in Hobart, Tasmania
Henry Jones	Single	22	Hobart, Tasmania	Sister living in Queenstown, Tasmania. Neither parent living.
John Martin Leeman	Single	27	Victoria	Body identified by his brother Charles
Zephaniah Lewis	Married	41	Victoria	Wife and eight children living at Gormanston, Tasmania. Body identified by oldest son William.
Thomas Maher	Married	31	Victoria	Wife in Linda Valley, Tasmania
Joseph McCarthy	Married	40	New South Wales	Wife and child residing at Linda Valley, Tasmania. To them a letter pinned to the wall by a "spider", was addressed.
Eugene Felix McCasland	Single	27	New South Wales	Engaged to a girl from Linda Valley, Tasmania
Edmund Michael McCullagh	Single	49	Richmond, Tasmania	Lived with his sister and brother, Thomas, at Queenstown, Tasmania.
James Bede McGowan	Single	23	Queenstown, Tasmania	Identified by his brother Martin
Bernard. McLoughlin	Married	35	Ballarat, Victoria	Never saw his youngest child as it was born after he left for North Lyell
Arthur McMaster	Married	27	Victoria	Identified by brother-in-law, Thomas McHenry
Herbert John Mitchell	Single	23	Linda Valley, Tasmania	Mother living in Black Lead, Victoria
Peter Moore	Single	48	Ireland	Left a note for the landlady at the Boarding House, letting her know where to send warning if anything should befall him.
Cornelius O’Keefe	Single	26	Tasmania	Identified by his father, John
James Robert Park	Married	37	Victoria	No children, but wife, Annie Eleanor living in Linda Valley, Tasmania.
Christopher Quake	Single	50	Victoria	Formerly known as W.J. Smith, but better known by the nickname of "Speewa".
Patrick Reiley	Widower	46	Tasmania	Identified by his brother John. Native of Westbury, Tasmania. Resided in Linda Valley, Tasmania. Had three children, two daughters and a son, residing in Hobart.
Francis John Rolfe	Married	31	Victoria	Shift boss. Two children residing at Linda Valley, Tasmania.
James Roland Rolfe	Single	22	Victoria	Parents living at Malmsbury, Victoria. Rumours stated that he was the brother of Francis John Rolfe
Thomas Saunderson	Married	37	North Lyell, Tasmania	Had a wife named Wilhemina and a daughter named May.
Leonard Sydney Scott	Married	22	Victoria	Identified by his father-in-law, Charles Morley. He had a wife named Louisa and a six week old daughter named Violet. Native of Melbourne, Victoria.
James William Smith	Single	19	Tasmania	His mother was residing with Mrs O'Connor, Princess St, Port Melbourne.
John Studwell	Single	20	Tasmania	Father residing at Manly, N.S.W.. Formerly from Beaconsfield. Identified by the initials "J.S." tattooed on his left forearm.
James Tregonning	Single	18	Kyvalley, Victoria	Recently arrived from England with father Daniel Tregonning, and younger sister, Eva Frances Tregonning.
William Tregonning	Single	20	Kyvalley, Victoria	Recently arrived from England with father Daniel Tregonning, and younger sister, Eva Frances Tregonning.
Richard John Treverton	Married	34	Queenstown, Tasmania	Wife and two children residing at Queenstown, Tasmania. Better known as "Snowy".
Henry Wright	Married	54	North Lyell, Tasmania	Resided at Linda Valley, Tasmania. Two daughters; one aged 17, the other aged 23
John Olive Lees		51	Queenstown, Tasmania