28th Robert Scholes started this morning with my
Horses & waggon to go into the mountain to assist the saints
I spent most of the day making a beet press & boilers
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I met President Grant He told me that there had come an express from the 1st Hand Cart Company & that there was bad news they were Caught in a snow storm & dying vary fast I went with him to the presidents office & saw the messengers who were Gideon H. Gibs & Horace Newel they went out to meet the hand cart companies when they met the Hand cart company there had been some 25 death 20 were men they were caught in a snow storm & the people became Chilled would draw all day & die at night those who would dig a grave for ther brethren would die the same day there were 5 deaths the day before we met them. Ther were
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