In the Pioneer Cemetery downtown is this memorial to the sternwheeler Columbian tragedy, the worst accident in the Yukon River's history. On September 25, 1906, the boat was destroyed and 6 people were killed in an explosion at Eagle Rock near Carmacks when a crewman accidentally fired a gun into a load of explosives carried on the bow.

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