the following Friday night

Robert Scholes started on the morning of the 28th
with my horses and waggon to go into the Mountains to assist the Saints

I met President Grant on the 31st and he said
there had come an express from the First Handcart company and that
they brought bad news. They were caught in a snow storm and
dying very fast. The people became chilled. They would draw
all day and die at night and those who dug the graves for the brethren
would themselves die the same day.

This I learned from the messengers themselves
They said the night before they met the company there were
five deaths. There had been some 25 deaths twenty of whom
were men

They had not heard from the 2^nd Hand cart company
Joseph Young and Cyrus H. Wheelock went ahead with the
news that help was coming and George D. Grant followed with
ten of the best teams.

There had been about fifty five deaths in
the first company in consequence of cold. The captain of
the company had dealt out all the provisions to the people the
night before any help came and they did not know that
any help was coming. They dealt out 11 oz. to a man
9 to a woman and 6 to a child. There was but little snow
on the road till they got to the Rocky Ridge

At the Prayer Circle on Sunday
November the 2^nd President Young wished me to write
out a list of the "Commandments" which he wished to make
use of in the Reformation

Brigham H. Young arrived on the
3rd. He had been with A. O. Smoot to St. Louis
Keokuk and Nauvoo. Nauvoo looked desolate
weeds growing up in the streets. He went to Emma

the following Friday night

Robert Scholes started on the morning of the 28th with my horses and waggon to go into the Mountains to assist the Saints

I met President Grant on the 31st and he said there had come an express from the First Handcart Company and that they brought bad news. They were caught in a Snow Storm and dying very fast. The people became chilled. They would draw all day and die at night and those who dug the graves for the brethren would themselves die the same day.

This I learned from the messengers themselves They said the night before they met the company there were five deaths. There had been some 25 deaths twenty of whom were men

They had not heard from the 2nd Hand Cart Company Joseph Young and Cyrus H. Wheelock went ahead with the news that help was coming and George D. Grant followed with ten of the best teams.

There had been about fifty five deaths in the first company in consequence of cold. The Captain of the company had dealt out all the provisions to the people the night before any help came and they did not know that any help was coming. They dealt out 11 oz. to a man 9 to a woman and 6 to a child. There was but little snow on the road till they got to the Rocky Ridge

At the Prayer Circle on Sunday November the 2nd President Young wished me to write out a list of the "Commandments" which he wished to make use of in the Reformation

Brigham H. Young arrived on the 3rd. He had been with A. O. Smoot to St. Louis Keokuk and Nauvoo. Nauvoo looked desolate weeds growing up in the streets. He went to Emma