Show late from the outgoing out oat going missionaries 15 ft ii i we me are in the receipt of a letter from one of 0 the missionaries who left for the east cast the list lashof listini kil iii september dated at franchs frenchs Frenc hs ranch shir ty hive five miles above fort kearny on the of october up to the the company had been beeh favored with excellent weather no st futorm 0 rm having io occurred to impede their progress gr pj Ss or render travelling tra velling disagreeable and uncomfortable on that day they encountered a bellere bevere severe storm the particulars of which may be learned n e d from the fol foi following lowin extracts from we the betterto Ietter letter to which we refer early earlyon on fliday afternoon last dinst gewere ve we were overtaken bya by a severe rainstorm rain storm the TheA wind d also which had blown cold and fiercely all day seemed to increase coming from fron the north as we dragged heavily along with the windings of the road the storm was alternately on our broadside or partly in our out faces some of the wagons being rather poorly fixed for to us such an unusual occurrence were generously saturated with the rain which poured down most copiously after some exertion we made a harbor under rader the lee of some hay bay stacks owned by mr dan da n smith who kept a station there here hire we ive vve obtained hay for our animals paying 30 cents per feed per head we also procured soma some wood from him as the timber was far off it was quite difficult however to make or keep up a fire some of the eldera elders who had tents succeeded in getting up a b blaze lize but the smoke was ex excruciating crucia ting towards night the cold grew more intense many had before this got thoroughly saturate ed t dand dand had not a dry chane chanze while nile bile their wagons ia s afforded bt b it an indifferent shelter night wo ln came on and with its darkness followed in increased fury of the storm many had bad no shelter whatever nor was wab there any to be procured on any aby terms capt it log become thoroughly wet was attacked with a severe chill just at dark offered fifty dollars keeper of the house bouse for a room in which to accommodate himself and family and those with kith him but all to no purpose the intensity intensity of the storm having criven to together ether irom roma rora ail all directions for miles areundo the pikes ikels pra pea kerb kers and returning with many others some borne of presented a molt most pitiable deil dejl actea forlorn and alid deprecated deprecates aspect the house bouse Z was s therefore crowded to its Us ut utmost troit capacity capacI tYland and rude couches covered every ev iry ery accessible ces sible nook and corner of the premises that tda vda was tia s sheltered from the storm I 1 will not attempt to des describe the scenes of that night in the elders camp lamp III iu the darkest est hour of ther the tight and d when the storm arose I 1 to t 0 its ts utmost fury there was not one that I 1 1 know v 0 of f who was comfort comfortless leks leis or in the least go disheartened heartened dis hea greened even though shivering iverin with cold drenched drench edwIth with rain and sleeping without shel shei te n the midst of the storm elie eile the long iong dark and dreary night at last passed away and ard revealed to our waking senses the first inov snoye we had seen on the journey and f further that during the night tents III lii had been blown down one of br van valen b mules had perished besides one or two animals belonging to others and that the wagon in which were sisters fos yos efran ce Williams and epst had haa been jut but a slight protection to them they all being wet through I 1 in n which h plight they had half been to re remain m a I 1 within thai that contracted compass unable to recline for rest till morning which indeed J brought t them hem bill but little relief in tha that t respect the family of br bryau bryan yau vau also I 1 suffered somewhat from cold and wet especially the little onh ones and I 1 am persuaded that none of this company would again under similar circumstances assume the risk and care of 0 children oil on a long journey from home at such an inclement season of the year snow continued continued continue 4 falling chiefly melting spon after the gale increasing and slackening at intervals until towards evening I 1 need not tell you that vre we remained in camp during saturday making ourselves externally as comfortable for table as possible onder under the circumstances circumstance es in spirit I 1 believe I 1 never saw the br brethren ethrell feel any more cheerful and even jocose the calm of the evening allowed opportunity for nikin fixing whatever needed during the whole period of the storm both by day and night our animals received every required attention and I 1 am fully persuaded that upon the whole tho thol lecas occasioning aning a delay of one day this opposition to the uniformly peasant pleasant weather we had hitherto hig herto it has been most salutary in its effects upon our mules many many of which had become leg weary and word worn with constant rapid rabid trava travel although the roads were wet mudd yand generally heavy beavy today to day we made good gom time tinie and came along blithely the elders and all others in their company are in generally health though a faw taw haxe haie cods and chills from tb the e effects of their late kte exposures |