there was much important business accomplished and the conference
continued through the next day which was Sunday. At its close
a collection was taken up for the poor.

On the 6th of May I met with the Quorum of
the Seventies and after some counselling there were sixty ordained into
the seventies.

After this I with the Twelve and Bishops met
brother Joseph at the house of Bishoph Partridge where we again
had an interesting time. This ended the Conference.

Several brethren who attended this conference
had been wounded by the Missourian mob. I will here
relate
A Remarkable Incident of the Persecution

Brother Isaac Leany was in company with about
20 others at Hawn's Mills in upper Missouri when a large
armed mob fell upon them with loaded rifles and other
weapons and shot down seventeen of the Saints and murdered
them in cold blood.

Brother Leany fled from the scene for life and
while fleeing the mob poured forth a shower of balls upon him
which pierced his body through and through. He showed
me eleven holes in his body and there wasere 27 in his shirt
7 in his pantaloons and his coat was literally cut to rags.
One ball entered his body at one arm pit and came out at
the other; another ball entered the back and came out of the
breast and balls passed through each hip each leg and each
arm. All thiese wasere received while runing for life.

Strange in fact miraculous as it was all these
wounds with the addition of a broken rib from one of the balls
yet the speed of this brother was not lessened but he entirely
out-run his pursuers and saved his life.

This is as remarkable a case as ever recorded in
history of a man being literally riddled with balls besides having
his clothes almost cut to rags on his back with the shower of
lead and yet to outrun his pursuers and save his life just as
though only a few pees had been showered after him. He
was at this Conference now; and we can only acknowledge his
miraculous preservation to be by the power and mercy of God.

there was much important business accomplished and the conference continued through the next day which was Sunday. At its close a collection was taken up for the poor.

On the 6th of May I met with the Quorum of the Seventies and after some counselling there were sixty ordained into the seventies.

After this I with the Twelve and Bishops met brother Joseph at the house of Bishoph Partridge where we again had an interesting time. This ended the Conference.

Several brethren who attended this conference had been wounded by the Missourian mob. I will here relate A Remarkable Incident of the Persecution

Brother Isaac Leany was in company with about 20 others at Hawn's Mills in upper Missouri when a large armed mob fell upon them with loaded rifles and other weapons and shot down seventeen of the Saints and murdered them in cold blood.

Brother Leany fled from the scene for life and while fleeing the mob poured forth a shower of balls upon him which pierced his body through and through. He showed me eleven holes in his body and there were 27 in his shirt 7 in his pantaloons and his coat was literally cut to rags. One ball entered his body at one arm pit and came out at the other; another ball entered the back and came out of the breast and balls passed through each hip each leg and each arm. All these were received while runing for life.

Strange in fact miraculous as it was all these wounds with the addition of a broken rib from one of the balls yet the speed of this brother was not lessened but he entirely out-run his pursuers and saved his life.

This is as remarkable a case as ever recorded in history of a man being literally riddled with balls besides having his clothes almost cut to rags on his back with the shower of lead and yet to outrun his pursuers and save his life just as though only a few pees had been showered after him. He was at this Conference now; and we can only acknowledge his miraculous preservation to be by the power and mercy of God.