The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-15
No. /

! From Wales-Catherine NJ. Griffiths,
| Edward Griffiths.
From Scotland-Allen NJ. Findlay and
| family, residents of Panecca, New, for
| thirty years Archibald McPhell and
family. Margery Smith and family, res
/ idents of Beaver City. Utah. for thirty
/ years: Alexander Brit or Burt, Salt
Lake. Utah; Thomas Stewart and fam
! lily. David Anderson, carpenter, resi-
dent of Salt Lake for fifty years; Will
liam Lexington and family, James GLIB
and wife. Andrew Smith of Salt Lake.
Mary A. CalchWell and family, Barbara
| Kelly, Ann Test, Christina Mcneil.
John McCollick. Jane A. Stuart. Isa-
| bella Wilkey, John Stuart and family,
John Kelly and wife, Elizabeth Forbes.
/ From Ireland-Joseph Mickey Cor Nc
Kay), Margaret Douglish.
From Sweden-John Ahmansen.
! From Bombay-Elizabeth Teait
From the United States-Miilen At
wood, Levi Savage, returning mission
aries.
From Denmark-Peter Madsen and
wife, Peter jacobson and family,
Ann Olsen, Berta Nielsen, Emma Brow
ant. Marcan Gregerson Ella Nielsen,
| Louiza Loutross. Johanna Maria Jen-
sen (afterward the mother of James J.
/ and J. Willard Squires, BARRIERS of this
city for many years.. and her sister,
/ Catherine Jensen; Mari and Anne An
! derson, Jens Sanberk, Anders Christen-
| sen, Cassius Hanson. Oleo Wickland
and family. Jens Peterson and family,
Jens Nelson and family, Peter Larson
and family, Paul Jacobson and wife,
Rasmus P. Hanson, Mareann JergOn-
/ son, Christen JergOnson, Carsten Jen-
son. Nils Anderson and family, Andres
/ Jensen and family, RaSmus Hanson
and wife, Lars Vandelin, Peter Morten-
! son and family, residents of Parowan,
| Iron county, Utah, for fifty years; Nils
| Hanson and wife, Anders JergonsOn
and family, Sophia Peterson and fam
/ lily, Peter Marsen and family, Ole
Madsen, Petrina c. James.
! Although Captain j. G. Willie's COM
pany left Iowa Hill, Ia, some fourteen
/ or sixteen days ahead of ours. Martins
company, with the middle of July
weather, and which they made good
use Of-and all possible haste to Flor
ence or WinteFquarters, Neb.. and got
away from there with only few days
| rest, losing no time from there to Fort
| Kearney, and realizing the value of the
good weather and the date that they
/ should reach and pass Fort Larimie;
/ yet before reaching the latter land
mark on those dTeary plains, they
|
| lassitude on the part of their guard at
| nights over their cattle, and where it
was more necessary than any other
part of the journey TO meet with their
most Gripping disaster in the loss by
/ the Cheyenne Indians of half, or more,
of their draught oxen.
This to them-at that time and place,
was an irreparable loss and fatality,
and from which they could not and
did not recover to the end of their jour
ney They had made good Roadway
from the start. with more single and
/ able-bodied members, in comparison to
LCaptain Martins company, that really
/ contained, and as heretofore recorded,
/ the most aged and infirm, and the
cleanings up of that seasons emigTa-
ton.
This loss of half their draught oxen
| necessitated the unloading onto the
carts of the company of half the pro-
/ visions in the wagons, and taking into
| consideration the three or four days
time spent in hunting for the cattle,
without moving camp and after con-
/ ceding further quest to be hopeless and
needless, their travel for the next two
aud three weeks with but little more
{ than one yoke of oxen to the wagon,
was greatly hindered and impeded,
( placing the company back from where
| they would have been without this loss
not less than 125 miles.
This company did not lack by any
means for members of hardihood,
health, strength and endurance, for
/ Captain Willie came to the relief party
below the mouth of Willow creek, after
dark at night, on Monday, October 20,
1856. and with what assistance they re-
/ ceived from that on they were enabled
4 IN al do
/ November ., the morning Martins
company left the "Ravine," three miles
west of Devils Gate and $50 miles from
/ Salt Lake City.
This loss on their part figures out
| almost proportionately with them as
| the unnecessary delay on Iowa Hill
Ia, Of sixteen days waiting for the
! handcarts to be made after we got
/ there. did to Martins company, for
now it is proof beyond question that
sixteen days of fairly good weather
and dry ground would have landed the
latter company from the Platte bridge
in the vicinity of Big Sandy or Green
river, but the knowledge of the future
/ is often withheld from the most gifted
and wise and for a purpose best known
! to Himself
/ One paragraph more from the late
] President Franklin d. Richards jour
nal on his return from Florence. Neb,.
/ to Salt Lake that season, and then fol-
/ lows captain J. G. Willie's report which
is the best authority as to the travels,
hardships sufferings and losses by
death of his company
Friday. Sept u, 1S56-We overlook
and camped with Brother Willies COM
pany at North Bluff creek. consisting
Of 404 persons, six wagons, 81 hand
carts. six yoke of oxen. thirty-two cows
and five mules. They were consider
ably weakened by the loss of their oxen