From the January 15, 1899 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Seattle–C.R. Maltby, who has arrived here from Dawson, was fifteen months on the Edmonton route. With about 100 other prospectors, he wintered at Wind City. When he left, in January, sixteen men were sick with scurvy. He heard in March that Dr. Mason of Chicago and W. Gauche, son of a Chicago banker,were dying. There were about fifty men stranded there, scurvy stricken and frozen. The Indian guides reported several parties lost in the mountains. These men will never be heard of again.”