| Show RETURNED TO HIS HOME Report of Missonary John MIKnightlnter est ng Incident of the Fort Smith lvclone Elder John M Knight of the Twelfth ward or this ells returnee on Saturday Satur-day afternoon from a mission to the I Indian lerrllorymlsnion on which he left thill city OnSeptember 3 1831 Die first sear of his travels was spent In the sidle of Arkansas he being one of the first two Elders sent to open or that part of the country to missionary work During that year the labors of tho iideis were attended with great go ceo and now thee Is I a good force of Ulders there the tate being organ ized I Into two conferences and many of the people display great Interest In the Gospel message The people are generally gen-erally kind and hosltble At the clotte of thc first clol Irt years see vice ghler Knight wn transferred to St John Ian and there performed the dulles of secretary of the mission which comprises Indian Terltorv okla homo lola JaIBu and T gas Elder Knight presents a most en coumglng lepoit of all these placee many people belng willing t listen to the Uokpel message Elder Knight reports an Intcrestlng Incident ot the recent cyclone at Tort Bmltb rk There hall ben two Elders laboring In the tomn anti at seven ocluck on the evening ot the great storm had completed their duty of visiting vis-iting everybody In the place not omit ting the prisoners In the penitentiary and distributing tracts on the Oospel The evening previous to this A Methodist Metho-dist preacher named Fletcher had held a meeting In his church building at it 1leh the Lalterday Saints were denounced de-nounced In the blllercst terms The night of the cyclone the storm came on about I oclock p m The Elders were lodging with a family of Saints wbose residence Nm right In the mis of the storm swept ellstilct Who the cyclone came along tile family began to leava tho house intending to reek eer for mafetY iviien one ot the mlllonnr Lea Elder I opening called them and requested them to remain In the buildIng build-Ing Basing that If they did so not one or them would be Injured They a ceited his counsel and found safety In the building which was not moved by the tom although all around It the buildings wcie wrecked even the Methodist church building not being strong enough to stand against the rury ot the storm The Ilonrle and Saints of course wen very grateful grate-ful for their preservation from Injury as they were right In the path of the cyclone |
