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On the 5 day of Oct 1846 while with the Camp of Israel
building up Winter Quarter on the west side of the Missouri
River then Indian Country I passsed passed through one of the most
painful scenes of my life and serious misfortune of any of my life
I took my ax and went 2 1/2 miles onto the bluffs to cut some shingle
timber to cover my cabin I was acompanied by two other men and
while falling the third tree ^which was an oak over two feet in diameter^ I steped backed of it some 8 feet and also one
side about the same distance where I thought I was entirely out of danger
but when the tree fell (being over two feet in diameter) ther being a crook
in the body of it, it struck a knowl on the ground and the whole body of the tree
shot end ways back of the stump and bounded & the but of the tree struck
me in the breast and knocked me several in the air against a standing
Oak and the falling tree followed me in its bend and caught me
against the standing tree and I came down between ^the two trees^ them one
standing & the other falling but before reaching the ground I was
liberated from between them and struck the ground upon my feet.
It badly bruised my left thigh the whole leangth of it and my hip
also my left arm it also broak my breast bone into also 3 ribs
on my left side it also bruised my lungs, vitals, and left side in
a shocking manor. After the accident I sat upon a log untill
Mr John Garrison went a quarter of a mile to get my horse. Notwith-
standing I was so badly hurt I had to mount my horse and ride
2 1/2 miles over a very rough road and had to dismout twice in
consequence of miry places, my breast and vitals was so badly torn
to peaces that each step of the horse went through me like an arrow
I continued on horsback untill I arived at Turky Creek on the
North side of Winter Quarters I then became exhausted & was taken
off and carried in a chair to my waggon not having a ^my^ cabin built
I was met in the street by president Brigham Young H. C Kimball, W
Richards & others who assisted in carrying me to my family. Before lying
me upon my bed the presidency laid hands upon me rebuked my suffering
& distress in the name of the Lord and said I should live and
not die. I was then laid upon my bed in my waggon and as
the Apostles prophesied upon my head so it came to pass I did live and
not die. I employed no physician on this occasion but was administered

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On the 5 day of Oct 1846 while with the Camp of Israel building up Winter Quarter on the west side of the Missouri River then Indian Country I passed through one of the most painful and serious misfortune of any of my life I took my ax and went 2 1/2 miles onto the bluffs to cut some shingle timber to cover my cabin I was acompanied by two other men and while falling the third tree which was an oak over two feet in diameter I steped backed of it some 8 feet and also one side about the same distance where I thought I was entirely out of danger but when the tree fell () ther being a crook in the body of it, it struck a knowl on the ground and the whole body of the tree shot end ways back of the stump and bounded & the but of the tree struck me in the breast and knocked me several in the air against a standing Oak and the falling tree followed me in its bend and caught me against the standing tree and I came down between the two trees one standing & the other falling but before reaching the ground I was liberated from between them and struck the ground upon my feet. It badly bruised my left thigh the whole leangth of it and my hip also my left arm it also broak my breast bone into also 3 ribs on my left side it also bruised my lungs, vitals, and left side in a shocking manor. After the accident I sat upon a log untill Mr John Garrison went a quarter of a mile to get my horse. Notwithstanding I was so badly hurt I had to mount my horse and ride 2 1/2 miles over a very rough road and had to dismout twice in consequence of miry places, my breast and vitals was so badly torn to peaces that each step of the horse went through me like an arrow I continued on horsback untill I arived at Turky Creek on the North side of Winter Quarters I then became exhausted & was taken off and carried in a chair to my waggon not having my cabin built I was met in the street by president Brigham Young H. C Kimball, W Richards & others who assisted in carrying me to my family. Before lying me upon my bed the presidency laid hands upon me rebuked my suffering & distress in the name of the Lord and said I should live and not die. I was then laid upon my bed in my waggon and as the Apostles prophesied upon my head so it came to pass I did live and not die. I employed no physician on this occasion but was administered