of the Home as I was going to bed the same spirit said to me
go & move your Mules away from that oak tree which was
one hundred yards north of our carriage I moved them to a [young]
hickery grove & tied them up & went to bed in thirty minuts
a whirlwind took the tree ^from the shaft near the ground^ to which my mules were fastened
& carried it one hundred yards swept two fences in its course
and laid it prostrate through that yard where my carriage stood
and the top limbs hit my carriage as it was, In the morning I
measured the trunk of the tree where my carriage stood and it measured
two feet & it came within a foot of Br Hyde waggon but
did not touch it, so by obeying the revelation of the spirit of God
to me I saved my life, my wife, and child, & my animals & went
my way rejoicing in the morning. And in my returne with a
large company of Saints from Boston & the east, in
on my arival in pittsburgh I engaged a passage for myself
& company on a Steemer to St Louis I had no sooner
engaged the passage than the spirit says to me go not on
board of that Steemer neither you nor your Company I obeyed
the revelation to me & did not go on board but took
another Steamer the first Steamer started about dark
with 200 passengers on board when 5 miles down the
of the Home as I was going to bed the same spirit said to me
go & move your Mules away from that oak tree which was
one hundred yards north of our carriage I moved them to a young
hickery grove & tied them up & went to bed in thirty minuts
a whirlwind took the tree from the shaft near the ground to which my mules were fastened
& carried it one hundred yards swept two fences in its course
and laid it prostrate through that yard where my carriage stood
and the top limbs hit my carriage as it was In the morning I
measured the trunk of the tree where my carriage stood and it measured
two feet & it came within a foot of Br Hyde waggon but
did not touch it, so by obeying the revelation of the spirit of God
to me I saved my life, my wife, and child, & my animals & went
my way rejoicing in the morning,. And in my returne with a
large company of Saints from Boston & the east, in 1850
on my arival in pittsburgh I engaged a passage for myself
& company on a Steemer to St Louis I had no sooner
engaged the passage than the spirit says to me go not on
board of that Steemer neither you nor your Company I obeyed
the revelation to me & did not go on board but took
another Steamer the first Steamer started about dark
with 200 passengers on board when 5 miles down the
"Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 3," p. 8, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 5, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/XqOW