Accidentally shot and killed Leroy Murfin on the Glacier, March 22, 1989. Townsend, Letters and other diarists. Member of Conger’s party, Conger, xxxii; “Sad News from the Hessian Party,” A. Wherley letter telling how his son Drewie Wherley “had gone to get his gun and in pulling it from the pile one of the weapons (whose is unknown) went off and mortally wounded Murfin. Hessian had given orders that all guns were to be unloaded, but the guns had been used for shooting fish and someone forgot to unload; “According to Mr. Whereley, no one blames Drewie; Murfin exonerated him on his deathbed, Belle Plains MN Herald, 4/13/98; Mentioned in letter about D. Wherley’s accidental shooting of Roy Murfin, Sleepy Eye Dispatch, 4/22/98; Conger, a member of this party, wrote a diary his experiences in the 1898-99 gold rush over Valdez Glacier to Copper River area, edited by Hoelski & Hoelski, In Search of Gold: The Alaska Journals of Horace D. Conger, 1898-99;