Show A. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY Thunder Storm Strikes Band Crossing River By y MELBA 1 MADSEN 1 EN ROUTE TO UTAH July 3 1847 A 1847 A light sprinkling of or rain wet our shoulders as we ferried the the last of ot the wagons across the Green river and shortly after the stragglers were were over safely a pouring rain driven by a a strong wind and accompanied by the blaze and crash of thunder and lightning began Though in hl from froni mountain fever William WilHam Clayton braved the rainstorm rainstorm rain rain- storm to set up a guIdepost at th the ferry who would follow to Fort Laramie e. e Some Some Some-of of the camp ca p members were l cent nt on ahead t to look for a new camping ground so as s to shorten the distance of or the next days day's travel and when they returned we e hitched up our teams team and moved down the river about three J camping iles-camping camping right smack In a swarming army anny of mosquitoes app apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap p t try trying ng their best to make us' us wish we hadn't come Pester Fester Men leo Animals Everything was literally covered cov cov- co covered ered with them and both men and animals auffe suffered cd greatly from their cop constant t tormenting Editors Editor's note not This Is the In a 5 series rles of articles about the rd migration of ot the tho L D S pl pioneers n rs Presented here Is a B day-by-day day account of the life lite lifetime and time of the Saints When the e ferrying had been beep completed ted the rafts were drawn I up on the east side of the river 1 and lid cached for use by the second secondi company of Saints During a a meeting of all camp 51 s r r I a h i e eCharles Charles C C. C Rich Leader of second company company to cross to cross plains members members members' in the eve r evening permission permission permission sion was given to all to-all all the men who desired to go back and meet their families expected to be in the next e emigration n company which we suppose to be several hundred miles in the rear Volunteer Return Those who volunteered to re return return return re- re turn were H H. Young George Woodward Aaron F. F Farr Eric Glines and Rodney Badger They will viii return in the thc Revenue Reve Cutter or wagon boat-wagon instead of oC on horseback since there are not five live animals which can be spared by the camp Later Dr Willard Richards wrote letters to Amasa M M. Lyman who is guiding the Saints from Pueblo to the Salt Lake Lako basin rendezvous rendezvous rendezvous ren ren- and to Charles Charles' C. C C Rich leader of the second company now crossing the plains With these letters to be sent with the men who are returning will be bea a table of distances between creeks and camp grounds prepared pre prepared prepared pre pre- pared by William Clayton and a synopsis of the camp journal between between between be be- tween Fort Laramie and the Green river prepared by Thomas Bul Bul- lock A number of other letters are also being written by the men in camp to be sent back along the trail |