NORTH MT. LYELL FIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 18 October 1912, Page 5

NORTH MT. LYELL FIRE.

COUNTING THE DEAD. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Hobart, October 17. An apparently purposeful effort on Dio nart of the men and officials to keen the women in the dark until it •= definitely ascertained w ho are dead, renders it difficult to obtain the names. '<t> far as is ascertainable, the following forty-two, including those already ■'aided as dead, or mising, are to he accounted for: Bray, Burke, Bourne, Bodon, Brooke, .Bennett, Bolton, Oreedon, Dacey, Gays, Green, Guy. Horn. Hill. Jones, Jenkins, dull, Lewis. Leeman, Moore,, Maher, Mitchell, McCarthen, McCullough, MeClonghlin, McMastors, McCashling 'or McOashl-and), O’Dea, O’Keefe, hark. F. Rolfe. P. Rolfe, Reilly, Studied. Saunderson. Scott, Smith, ',l re■•erton, W. Tregonning,_ J. J regonning, Valentine and Write. THE HOUSE ADJOURNS. Hobart. October 17. Th. Assembly met and the Premier and Leader the Opposition agreed that in view of the LyclJ disaster they were unprepared to proceed with nusinoss, and the House adjourned until next week. TOLD BY THE SURVIVORS. NOBLE RECORD OF HEROISM.

Hobart, October 17. Further interviews with the res, nod confirm the statement that if the men in the 850 ft. level had treated the warning seriously they could all haw escaped. Bennett stated that he treated it more or less as a joke, ami sat down to eat. It was not till he was again warned by the samite taa. ae attempted to reach the cage. Many men were overcome after they re..c. e.i it. There were numerous instances ot .plendid self-sacrifice. 'Jreverton, cue •h the mising, helped a sick man to the cage, and when urged himself In •inter it, replied that he was going round to see if he could get any nn re hoys, Cox, the foreman, remained ialoi.v helping till he was overcome Bennett was sure that no one would >e able to live two minutes in the 'urnes. Ryan, the hero of the ifooo7b. level, was one of the worst sufferers. He deprecated his own noble effort-:. As -mm as he saw it was going to ho had :e got the men down the slope. He '■bought that if the air had failed, an'tiior twenty-four hours would have •«ex» the end of tho boys. REGARDING THE DEATH ROLL. Hobart, October 17. Efforts are centred in quelling the ire at tho 700 ft. level. Tim lire is mow confined to a small area. , There is a conflict of opinion regarding the death roll. Ac.ordii gto Mio company’s figures, of tho 95 en••ornbed, 54 were rescued,'"and 41 are dead. The President of the Gormanslown Miners’ Union declares that the r. II•all showed 102 men entombed. He Relieves 48 are dead. Twenty-eight bodies have been ro•ove.red. A rumour is spreading in ne Gormanstown district that tne ■•eport of the 57 dead was based, ptolably, on the fact that 57 coffins were ordered. Melbourne, October 18. The Tasmanian members of the House have opened a relief fund for he North Mount Lyell widows and orphans. DIED OF A BROKEN HEART. Hobart, October 18. Mrs McCarthy, widow of J. McCarthy, who was entombed in th© mine ■md who left a piteous letter cf fareveil, has expired from grief. She vas in delicate health.