and their lives were saved, by having a long
train of freight between the passenger cars and the
engine, which ^all of them^ were mashed to pieces, the engineer
was killed, some of the passengers had bones broken
I escaped unhurt.
On the 5th day of Oct 1846, while with the Camp
of Israel building up winter quarters on the west
side of the Missouri river, (then Indian country,) I
passed through one of the most painful and serious
misfortunes I ever of any of my life I took my axe
and went two and a half miles on to the bluffs, to
cut some shingle timber to cover my shanty cabin
I was accompanied by two other men and while
falling the 3rd trees ^was falling^ which was an oak over 2 ft
diameter I stepped behind it some 10 feet, and also
to one side the same distance, where I thought I
was entirely out of danger, but when the tree fell
there being a crook in the body of it, ^which^ struck a knoll
on the ground when the whole body shot endways
back of the stump and bounded, and the butt of the
tree struck me on the breast, and knocked me several
feet into the air, ^against a standing oak^ and the falling tree followed me
in its bound and caught me against the standing
tree and I came down between the them, before
reaching the ground I was liberated from them
and struck the ground upon my feet, badly bru^i^sed
my left thigh the whole length of it and my hip
also ^and^ my left arm, it also broke my breast bone
also 3 ribs on my left side also bruised my lungs,
vitals and left side were also bruised in a shocking manner.
after the accident I sat upon a log until Mr
Mo Garrison went a quarter of a mile to get my
horse; notwithstanding I was so badly hurt I had

and their lives were saved, by having a long train of freight between the passenger cars and the engine, all of them were mashed to pieces, the engineer was killed, some of the passengers had bones broken I escaped unhurt. On the 5th day of Oct 1846, while with the Camp of Israel building up winter quarters on the west side of the Missouri river, (then Indian country,) I passed through one of the most painful and serious misfortunes of any of my life I took my axe and went two and a half miles on to the bluffs, to cut some shingle timber to cover my cabin I was accompanied by two men and while the 3rd tree was falling which was an oak over 2 ft diameter I stepped behind it some 10 feet, and also to one side the same distance, where I thought I was entirely out of danger, but when the tree fell there being a crook in the body of it, which struck a knoll on the ground the whole body shot endways back of the stump and bounded, and the butt of the tree struck me on the breast, and knocked me several feet into the air, against a standing oak and the falling tree followed me in its bound and caught me against the standing tree and I came down between the them, before reaching the ground I was liberated from them and struck the ground upon my feet, badly bruised my left thigh the whole length of it and my hip and my left arm, it also broke my breast bone also 3 ribs on my left side also bruised my lungs, vitals and left side were also bruised in a shocking manner. after the accident I sat upon a log until M Mo Garrison went a quarter of a mile to get my horse; notwithstanding I was so badly hurt I had