June 15 1878
West over the City, and it burned untill there was
not a single building left standing whole Even down
to the wharfs, and the shiping all seemed to be burned
and swallowed up in the common destruction
and left Nothing but a Desolation whare the great
City was a short time before. The stench from the
bodies that were burning was so great that it was
carried a great distance across the Hudson River
and bay, and thus spread deisease and death wha-
reever the flames penetrated. I cannot paint in
words the Horror that seemed to Encompass me around
It was beyound description or thought of man
to conceive. I supposed this was the End but I was
here given to understand, that the same horror
was being enacted all over the country. North
South East and West, that few were left alive
still there were some. Immediately after I
seemed to be standing on the west bank of the
Missouri River opposite the City at Independance
but I saw no city I saw the whole states of Miss-
ouri & Illinois and part of Iowa were a com-
plete wilderness with no living human being im
them. I then saw a short distance from the river
Twelve men dressed in the robes of the Temple stand[in]g
in a square or nearly so. I understood it resprese-
nted the Twelve gates of the New Jerrusalem, and
they were with hands uplifted consecrating the ground
and laying the Corner Stones. I saw myriads

June 15 1878 West over the City, and it burned untill there was not a single building left standing whole Even down to the wharfs, and the shiping all seemed to be burned and swallowed up in the common destruction and left Nothing but a Desolation whare the great City was a short time before. The stench from the bodies that were burning was so great that it was carried a great distance across the Hudson River and bay, and thus spread disease and death whareever the flames penetrated. I cannot paint in words the Horror that seemed to Encompass me around It was beyound description or thought of man to conceive. I supposed this was the End but I was here given to understand, that the same horror was being enacted all over the country. North South East and West, that few were left alive still there were some. Immediately after I seemed to be standing on the west bank of the Missouri River opposite the City at Independance but I saw no city I saw the whole states of Missouri & Illinois and part of Iowa were a complete wilderness with no living human being im them. I then saw a short distance from the river Twelve men dressed in the robes of the Temple standing in a square or nearly so. I understood it respresented the Twelve gates of the New Jerrusalem, and they were with hands uplifted consecrating the ground and laying the Corner Stones. I saw myriads