| Show ItLlUlin 3Ili > iIUMII III Oil MM C The high water nlanc the Ohio river and Ito tributaries ulna Jy hag claimed a number of huuisu victims and u statement In ono of tbo flight dispatches dis-patches awakened considerable auxle ty I here it was as follow I oimiu Kj lob ITb 1 Ohio river Imsieucl odnKtane l ol 1 11011 1 Meet on the Inlli ulIlllhelo la I it inv at like rate ol 1 bi n Inch 111I i hour Three tire IIIUK IIro romol ilia vie IIml lining tIr Iorloll a Mormlln Inllonl UI likotlllo Jersey Hot I eomb H 1 ollnl < school I toatbu ut London Bud au axed omin at Inuvlliu There Ill I uo Elder Morlou front this IlIIrt of Ihe I o nutty In KoltUCkj I but there tire 11 dork whose field 01 iorli In I ike COUI tjol which I1 Hev I e Is tho county toil The town li bat IccitoJ ou the Ohio bat ou n Irlbu I tory the went fork of tilts Iltg Sandy rlvr Pike county Is the txtreuu easterly couoty of reuunsien fnere are two 1tJB name Martin in flitS flit-S uthtrn U atea one from I3clplo nail the other Iron Jjigali we lelevi Quo of these Elders I Is located lu Ku lucky In Bponoer untjln the north central part Kentucky a olisrt distance dis-tance from Loufavllle but more Than a hundred sn J fifty miles Ir ru 1ite vllli eo that It la not likely that hi Ir I tto one referred to and that a ru tttke lIB 1 been mailo lu Ibe name B mi Sn elders 01 the IttorcJultoJ or Josepblt church In mi dab of Pike c unty Kv I 64Va Latin ctred to itveral times li Ih dirlAtcemor form n noteilsnarlo 1 and III I possible that t a Unfortunate man wai ono or tl tit It the drowning favored Ila cured Al tbo pr lent writing there appears to Lo 00 Irohhlllty that the Eider Morton rtpir ol drowned la I a Mormon mlrrlouary Diligent iflorta haVe boon maiJo to ascertain whither any Mormuu Elder has mat with mho fortune lit no new ot that kind la obtal able If anything of such serious nature as thai reported bad liioiij the tlllngl ahiilld have blen I at tho Presidents Silica In thh illy as early as It I was lvcu fettle Press dlaralcbir The Elders travel In limits I and under the positive Instiuc thus gl them the acclJent would hive ben rciore4 by telegraph to Chattanooga and Irom them hue HIIHO no rtpin hat been mod It In I rtaatinable to b Per I that flit unfor u oat man was not from Iblll tart of Ito cuollY Jlul wnoever lie lei I sail whatever rdlgltus orgi Izitlonho balance to It la a sad event when u mltslocarj away from hams and family Iborlo in what ho sincerely believes Is I a cause that will bring god to mankloo loses I his life by acoldent or other niesm the blow la loubly severe oi the bereaved and their fats cilia for sympathy Irum all loving hesrla The Mormon Elders have been notably and prcullsrly reserved lu their nilialonary ix erloucea Borne hive been oiled to give up their lives as marlyrr < omo have bteu taken away by accident or by disease while In the mission Held but tl e proportion thus taken has beer marvellously bmall That faith lu the r gain In peace and returning lu safe y bsa been manliest to n wondcriulix lent In Ibo results shown In this regard And may tho mei ure of preservation accorded them In this rospcc continue lobe the lot of the hundreds that go out each year from these mountain el en vales loileolale the Gospel of life and salvation lo ltw national |
