wheel into about 3 feet of water and my weight drew my legs
out of the wheel or I should have been drawn under a shaft & crushed
to death. In 1831, while having charge of the Flouring Mill in Collinsv-
ville Ct I was standing inside of a breast wheel 20 feet in diameter
upon one of the arms near the top clearing out the ice when a full head of
water was let onto it it immediately started. I dropped my ax and leaped
through the wheel to the bottom of it by the shaft & arms about 20 feet as I struck
the bottom of the wheel I was rolled out against a ragged stone well with ownly
about 2 feet clearance between it & the wheel the wheel caught me & rolled ^me^ out
into the water below where I found myself without any broken bones but with
some bruises & much fright. ^*see paper apart^ In 1833 the day I was baptized into the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints one of my horses newly calked
kicked my hat of my head & had he struck 2 inches lower would probably
have killed me instantly. In 10 minutes afterwards while driving the same horses
down a hill on a sled without any box the bottom boards sliped forward
under the roll caught the ground turned endways fell on the horses badly
throwing me between the horses they ran to the bottom of the hill draging me
by the lines head foremost with the steed top of me about rods over
a smooth snow path I escaped unharmed however in the midst of both dangers
In 1834, while travelling in Zions Camp to Missouri a rifle was accidentally
discharged & the ball passed through three tents with a dozen men in each & lodged
in a waggon axletree with a man standing against it it injured no one. It passed within
a few inches of my breast & many others escaped as narrowly as my self

A few months afterwards a musket was accidentally snaped with the muzzle pointing at
my breast within a few feet of me heavily loaded with buck shot but it missed fire
and my life was again preserved. In April 1839 in Rochester Ill I was riding
upon the running gears of a waggon without any box, I was sitting upon the fore ward
axletree and the bolt came out fastening the cupling pole this left the hind wheels & my
weight on the forward bolster & tongue turned the coupling pole clear over onto the horses
backs, turned the stakes upside down & shut me up fast between the boulster & tongue
but in such a manner that my head & shoulders dragged on the ground my horses
took fright and ran out into an open pari prairie & thus draged me in this position
for about half a mile when I managed so as to guide them with my left hand so
as to to run them into a corner of a high worm fence where we landed in a pile
together, I was considerably bruised but landed withou escaped without any broken bones

wheel into about 3 feet of water and my weight drew my legs out of the wheel or I should have been drawn under a shaft & crushed to death. In 1831, while having charge of the Flouring Mill in Collinsville Ct I was standing inside of a breast wheel 20 feet in diameter upon one of the arms near the top clearing out the ice when a full head of water was let onto it it immediately started. I dropped my ax and leaped through the wheel to the bottom of it by the shaft & arms about 20 feet as I struck the bottom of the wheel I was rolled out against a ragged stone well with ownly about 2 feet clearance between it & the wheel the wheel caught me & rolled me out into the water below where I found myself without any broken bones but with some bruises & much fright. *see paper apart In 1833 the day I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints one of my horses newly calked kicked my hat of my head & had he struck 2 inches lower would probably have killed me instantly. In 10 minutes afterwards while driving the same horses down a hill on a sled without any box the bottom boards sliped forward under the roll caught the ground turned endways fell on the horses badly throwing me between the horses they ran to the bottom of the hill draging me by the lines head foremost with the steed top of me about rods over a smooth snow path I escaped unharmed however in the midst of both dangers In 1834, while travelling in Zions Camp to Missouri a rifle was accidentally discharged & the ball passed through three tents with a dozen men in each & lodged in a waggon axletree with a man standing against it it injured no one. It passed within a few inches of my breast & many others escaped as narrowly as my self

A few months afterwards a musket was accidentally snaped with the muzzle pointing at my breast within a few feet of me heavily loaded with buck shot but it missed fire and my life was again preserved. In April 1839 in Rochester Ill I was riding upon the running gears of a waggon without any box, I was sitting upon the fore ward axletree and the bolt came out fastening the cupling pole this left the hind wheels & my weight on the forward bolster & tongue turned the coupling pole clear over onto the horses backs, turned the stakes upside down & shut me up fast between the boulster & tongue but in such a manner that my head & shoulders dragged on the ground my horses took fright and ran out into an open prairie & thus draged me in this position for about half a mile when I managed to guide them with my left hand so as to to run them into a corner of a high worm fence where we landed in a pile together, I was considerably bruised but escaped without any broken bones