Pioneer Cemetery at Skagway, Alaska

In memory of
Charles C. Larson
May 17, 1891
Jan. 31, 1935
Charles Larson was killed just after 11:00 a.m. on January 30, 1935, when the International Airways plane he was a passenger in crashed near the summit of the White Pass during a snow storm. He had arrived at Skagway from Vancouver on the Princess Norah the day before, and was returning to Dawson where he operated a gold dredge. Men at the White Pass railroad section house heard the crash and saw the wreckage roll down the mountainside onto the top of a snowshed. Also killed were pilot Lawrence Muehleisen, Archie King, and John R. Muralt. Larson was survived by a wife and 2 children. International Airways was owned by Clyde G. Wann of Whitehorse and the aircraft was a Buhl CA-6 Airsedan.