Show LOST HIS HAND accident at st johns arizona crops etc robt holmes writes from st johns arizona Arizo yia A aug us 18 qs gs follows is the st jobus people were thrown into consternation conster on the fifteenth of the kinle the saints 8 tints pay ini dheil atif pacts lo 10 departed Iri Irien nili fi broller Broll nr r taomas the news flew around like lightning that a sad accident had just happened to one of the members of the presidency of the st johns stake of zion brother wm win gibbous gibbons As near as I 1 can find out the fa facts t areas are as follows brotter brother gibbons had set a thresher at a small stack at his place As he was feeding fe edins the machine by some means or other one of the hooks of the platform p atford came out and he came near being g thrown backwards to the ground lie seems to have made a grasp at sora ething to save himself from the fall his left hand band fell towards the cylinder while in full speed it caught his hand baud with a glove on it and mashed his hand so badly it had to be amputated brother gibbons is aman a man of strong nerve and was very reluctant to have dave the hand removed A other mother gibbons bibbons ff J platt and the writer took a tour through tile the southern settlements of this stake only a week before and the former expressed to us that he did not wish to go with the machine talis season but being asked to continue he consented we lye with him regret very much his mishap mish irp lie he is now doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances everything is quiet here the health of the people is good we have raised sufficient ent grain to bread us we have bave had a hot and dry summer politics are mixed up water is low in the streams but the clouds give us rain now and again to help us out ut |