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Herbert “Bert” Markham (1872 - 1899)

Bert Markham was a teamster for the Orr & Tukey freighting company in 1899. He left Dawson on the government road about ten o’clock with a four-mule sled and two tons of freight consigned to Gold Hill. The road crossed a small glacier near Claim No. 88 Below and was considerably higher on one side. It made a slight ascent and turned abruptly to the right. Markham speeded up his mules to a trot so as to cross the glaciated road as quickly as he could. At a turn, the sled slid off the road and down an eighteen-foot embankment, turned over, and buried Markham under the load.¹⁾ Bert Markham died of suffocation. ²⁾