September, 1888, to a term for un-
lawful cohabitation.
March,
1889, he was placed on trial on a
Released From Prison.
charge of adultery with his plural
On June 12 George Manwar-
wife, and pleaded a former convic-
tion. He was tried, however, and ing was released, having served
found guilty, and the court sen- four months on a charge of unlaw-
tenced him to 125 days in the peni-ful cohabitation.
tentiary.

CURRENT EVENTS. charge of unlawful cohabitation a term of 100 days for unlawful co

and pleaded guilty to the indict- habitation. He was detained for
ment. He was sentenced to four 30 days longer for non-payment of
months' imprisonment, the pay-fine and costs, which amounted to
ment of a $100 fine and costs
amounting to $26.
vs. Jonah Evans, unlawful cohabi-
tation, sentence was postponed un-
til June 25th.

I would, therefore, respectfully ask the court for some special order or direction in this matter.

All formal exercises will be suspended on legal holidays, and during conferences of the Church, and of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion. The following compose the faculty:

Benjamin Perkins, Rabbit Valley; and of course could elect whomso-cember 21, 1889, and ends January Andrew Anderson, Grass Valley; ever I pleased. It would, however, 5, 1890. John T. Covington, Orderville; be impossible for the parties elected Cornelius McRevy, Washington; to qualify. Jas. H. Langford, Circle Valley; Carl Olsen, Mayfield; Soren Jacobsen Bountiful, and Charles Frampton, Fillmore. The first five received the full sentence for unlawful cohabitation, that being the charge on which all were confined except the last named, who was prosecuted for adultery with his plural wife, and was sent to prison for nine months.

The Church Farm.

The following was done in the Territorial Supreme Court on June

15:

Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. DYER,
Receiver.
Salt Lake City, February, 1889.
Under date of June 11, the re-
ceiver sent the following:

I respectfully hand you herewith
copies of the annual statements of
business transacted by the Deseret
Telegraph Company for the
years ending December 31, 1885-
86-87-88, which I have just ob-
tained from Mr. W. B. Dougall, the
manager of said company, all of
which is respectfully submitted for
your consideration.

United States vs. the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Upon consideration of the matter
of renting the "Church Farm, "now
in the hands of the receiver, it is the
order of the court that he advertise
for bids for seven days, in the Salt
Lake newspapers, said bids to close Year. Receipts. Disbmts.
on June 22d, and the farm will
be rented tu the highest re-
sponsible bidder. Said
renting 1887
will run to April 1st, 1890, subject to
termination November 1st, 1889, by
the order of this court. A report
will be made by the receiver to this
court at 2 o'clock on Saturday,

FRANK H. DYER,
Receiver C. J. C. L. D. S.

DESERET TELEGRAPH MEMORANDUM.

June 22.

June 15 was the date set for the biennial election of the of ficers of the Deseret Telegraph Company.

In February last Receiver F. H. Dyer addressed the following communication to the Territorial Supreme Court:

To the Honorable Supreme Court:
In addition to my regular month-
ly report, I desire to direct the espe-
cial attention of the court to the
fact that I hold as receiver of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, 4,732 shares of the capi-
tal stock of the Deseret Telegraph
Company, and that there are about
sixty-eight shares held by indivi-

duals.

The election of officers occurred

1885
1886

1838

Loss.

$14,737.76 $16,679.1 $1,941.37
14, 81.21 16,662.54 1,781.33
15,816.24 15,623.81
13,976.15 14,984 16 1,008.01

Gain

$191.43

James E. Talmage, D. S. D., Principal, Natural and Physical Science, and Phonography; Willard Done, Secretary, Intermediate Department ond English; Joseph Nelson, Librarian, Academic Department and Mathematics; Newton Noyes, Assistant Librarian, Associate Instructor in Intermediate Department; Willard Croxall, Assistant Instructor; Mrs. Camilla Cobb, Lady Superintendent; F. Beesley, Instructor in Vocal Music.

The following have been secured as lecturers:

M. H. Hardy, M. D., Sanitary Science; Mattie P. Hughes, M. D., Personal Hygiene for Ladies; Hon. F. S. Richards, Political Science; J. H. Moyle, LL. B., Commercial Law; Don C. Young, C. E., Architecture.

It will be observed from the following schedule that the tuition charges have been very greatly reduced since the last school year, in accordance with the recommendations of the General Board of Edu

cation.

The charges are:

Intermediate Department-Five weeks, $2.50; ten weeks, $4.50; fifteen weeks. $6.50; twenty weeks,

It was expected that the court
would have taken some action that
morning but it did not. The stock-
holders' meeting was held, but no
election took place. The receiver
holds the majority of the stock,
which was seized with other Church
property, and if he had voted it
could have elected a board $8.
of officers from among the stock-
holders, but this would have left the
control of the company in the hands
of the actual owners of the property.
But the receiver, as shown by his
communication to the court, wants
a board of his own making. This is
not possible unless the court orders
the stock transferred to those who

have no title to it whatever.

The stockholders object to this proceeding, as, in the event of the stock being returned to its proper owners by the Supreme Court of the United States, there would be elected for two years a set

principles of true theology. It is an institution to which Latter-day Saints can safely entrust their children, as there they will not only be taught in the various branches of secular learning, but in moral ethics and correct religion.

The college is fully equipped with necessary apparatus to make it an efficient educational institution, one of whose leading features is the of officers who were not stock- imparting of instruction in the holders, thus working a grave injustice. A proposition was submitted to the receiver to let the matter go till next December, by which time the Supreme Court will probably give its decision, and then a special election can be held would be brought about by the without causing the injury that placing in office of men who were not bona fide owners of stock. The meeting then adjourned for ten days -till June 25-that the receiver

some time previous to the turning might consider what course he will
over of this stock to me, and I am pursue.
informed that the anuual election
of officers will take place on the 15th
of next June. I desire to state to
the court that, in view of the fact
I hold this stock as receiver, and am
not authorized to transfer any part
of it, for the purpose of electing such
directors as I may see fit, I am
placed in an awkward position, as I
cannot transfer any of the stock to
the persons whom I might see fit
to elect as directors, while I hold
nearly all the stock and can vote it,

addressed to Dr. J. E. Talmage, P. O. Box 1047, Salt Lake City.

All communications should be

A Returned Missionary. Elder A. L. Stewart, of Kanab,

Kane County, arrived in the city June 12 upon his return from a mission. He departed from Utah on May 31st, 1887, for New Zealand, and from the time of his arrival in that country until April 7th in the following year he labored in the districts of Poverty Bay and Mahai. Thence he proceeded to New South Wales, the remainder of his mission being passed between Sydney and Victoria. At the present time there are two missionaries only belonging to the Church located De-in Victoria and one in New South

Latter-Day Saints' College. The circular of the Latter-day Saints' College, formerly known as the Salt Lake Stake Academy, is out for the academic year 1889-1890. It announces that there will be two terms, aggregating twenty weeks. The first begins August 5th, and ends December 20th, 1889; the second begins January, 6th, and ends May 23rd, 1890.

The Winter Vacation begins

The Relief Movement.

The grand concert, held in the Tabernacle in this city, June 11th, for the benefit of the Johnstown sufferers, was a splendid success in every respect.

So. If we had been obliged to pay for everything our receipts would have been perhaps 20 per cent. less. No one has charged us a dollar or been willing to accept any pay whatever.

Wales. Elder Stewart did not meet sengers. Many of these are certain successful. All who could in any with very much encouragement in to succumb to the effects of their in- manner render aid have freely done his several fields of labor. There juries. was very little inquiry concerning the Gospel, although the meetings were generally fairly attended, and the people were kind and hospitable towards the missionaries. On one or two occasions the latter met with some little opposition, and once they were threatened with violence, but left the neighborhood while the mobbers were organizing, in order to avoid a disturbance. During his absence Elder Stewart officiated at three baptisms. He left Sydney on the homeward journey on May 15th, in the steamship New Zealander, and was accompanied to Utah by Brother Myers and his three children, from Victoria, Sister McDonald and her four children, from New Zealand, Brother James Nicholls, from Sydney, and Peter Cooke, a boy of 14, a convert, from Sydney.

At a juncture in the programme, Governor Thomas came to the front, and in a neat speech explained the need of help for the sufferers from the Seattle fire as well as those from the Pennsylvania floods, and in response to his proposition a unanimous vote was given to devote twenty-five per cent of the proceeds of the concert to the former purpose, leaving the balance for the latter.

On June 17 the committee having in charge the collection of funds for the Johnstown and Seattle suffermet at the Chamber of Commerce building.

The ocean trip was a most enjoy-ers, able one, and Elder Stewart and party are in excellent health and spirits.

The secretary read the following
report of deposits:

Hills, Webber and Rowe
Dooly and Wells...
Scarff and Burton..

Walker and Mackintosh...
McCornick,Glendinning and Auer-

reg-T. R. Jones

past

Simon and Daly..

Grant and Jennings..

1887

1888

1889

bach..

534

657

1008

1182

1699

ersham...

511

606

This shows a gain of 1602 over the last registration, in September, 1888, and 1771 over June, 1888.

Railroad Accident in Ireland. On June 11th, a railroad train was wrecked near Armagh, Ireland,

said to be the worst railroad disaster that ever occurred in that country. On the 12th, all the shops in Armagh were closed and the people were in mourning. The train was loaded with children excursionists. The engineer, fireman and guard of the train, and the traffic manager's clerk, were summoned before a magistrate and remanded on a charge of being responsible for the

accident.

From Spanish Fork..........
From Lehi...

Total...

$ 948 25

652 00 457 50 92 00 761 50 487 50 2,096 25

560 40

36% 70
999 30

5 00

2.50

600 104 00

$7,542 03

Treasurer Hills reported that that
was the total amount deposited.
The following telegram was read:
SEATTLE, W. T., June 17, 1889.
To Arthur L. Thomas, Governor of
Utah:

For the relief of the survivors of the terrific flooding of the Connemaugh valley, you have raised through a concert at the tabernacle and by contributions, $7,542.03. Of this sum the committee has instructed the chairman, in accordance with the vote taken at the concert, to remit 25 per cent to Mr. J. R. Lewis, chairman of the Seattle Relief Committee, and the remainder to Mr. William McCreer, chairman of the Pittsburg (Johnstown) Relief Committee. This will be done tomorrow. The city is to be congrat ulated on the possession of such a structure so well adapted to such use as the Tabernacle. The evening of the concert saw 4400 persons comfortably seated, about four-fifths of them in the body of the house, with 400 singers and musicians on the stage, and the mammoth organ in the background. The use of the house and its appurtenances, fitted up and lighted, was tendered free of charge by the President of the Mormon Church. The evening of the concert was pleasantly cool, the sky was unclouded, the moon at the full, and so the assemblage was blessed with an exquisite night and a splendid place in which to consummate its humane act. From the artistic standpoint the concert, from the overture to the last number, was a credit to the city. Probably our citizens never before passed a week af such unstinted giving and working in a benevolent cause. They are the better, the happier, and the richer for the experience. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." JOHNSTOWN RELIEF COMMITTEE. ARTHUR L. THOMAS, Chairman.

O. J. HOLLISTER,

Secretary.

Salt Lake, June 17, 1889.

discloses this. "Our loss will be fully A careful review of our situation $12,000,000, but our business will recover without assistance. Thousands of our laborers are without lodgings and money, scores of families are without houses, house goods, clothing, bedding and provisions. The demands are large upon us and will Narrow escapes from being buried continue for some time. Lodgings alive have been remarkably freare being furnished in tents and quent of late. John Stephens, an old The shrieks of the children were many families are housed in tents. man who lived at Nanticoke, Pa., horrible. Many were mangled be- We are receiving and using liberal has had a remarkable experience. yond recognition. There is scarcely contributions and of necessity must On Saturday he was found appara family that has not some one dead, continue to do so at present. Labor ently dead in the house of John and in many cases whole families is largely dependent on the city but Alexander. The physicians stated were killed. The embankment on rebuilding is commenced and we that he was dead. The body was which the accident occurred is hope soon to have labor organized. put in a rough coffin and placed in seventy feet high. Before starting We can well use any contributions an outhouse until next morning, on the fatal excursion, the children you may make and will thankfully when the coffin was placed in a had paraded the rough streets of receive the same. Armagh with flags and banners. The townsfolks turned out almost en masse to wish them a happy

J. R. LEWIS,
Chairman Relief Committee.

and the meeting adjourned:

holiday. The train consisted It was decided to send 25 per cent.
of fifteen carriages, and the of the amount on hand to Seattle,
children were in the front portion and the remainder to Pittsburg.
of the train. About a dozen chil- The following report was adopted,
dren were killed. A majority of the
victims are about ten years of age. In closing the labors assigned
They were in the last carriage, which them by their fellow citizens at the
was completely smashed. All the chamber of commerce meeting of
bodies have now been taken from June 6th inst., the committees de-
the wreck. The total killed is 72, sire to say that the general and en-
of whom 64 have been identified thusiastic co-operation of the people
The number injured is about one-of the city, young and old, has
third of the entire number of pas-made these labors easy, pleasant and

wagon and was carried off for the poorhouse, where interment was to be made. The wagon had not gone far when the driver was startled by hearing groans from the coffin and the noise of someone struggling. He halted the wagon, wrenched open the box and found Stephens alive and perfectly conscious. He says he was conscious most of the time, and remembers being placed in the coffin and carried to the outhouse, but not about lying in the outhouse for thirty-six hours. He says he suffered terribly from fear of being buried alive.

THE GREAT FLOOD.

the

A young lad named Eddie Firshir, whose mother and five brothers and sisters had lost their lives, committed suicide June 7 while in a fit of despondency by hurling himself from the top of a building.

THE DAM WAS DEFECTIVE.

was

the various spans through which the water had passed. Line repair men are badly needed to help in removing the wires, and Kirk says as soon as they are gone he will hustle the debris through by the acre.

"The problem of the hour is the disposal of the debris about the i'ennsylvania railroad bridge. Unless it is soon got rid of the stench will be no human so overpowering that being can withstand it.

"The pneumonia scourge grows alarmingly, notwithstanding the statements of Dr. Groff, of the State Health Board. Dr. Sweet, a member of Dr. Groff's staff, came down from Cambria tonight with a startling

con

"Dr. Carrington also reported several cases of pneumonia, he having found them on the hill near Move

ville.

A

"A pair of human feet was noticed sticking out of the sand on the river bank near Kernville today. soon unearthed the gang of men bodies of two men and one girl, all in a good state of preservation.

rate of maximum discharge. The net effect of all these differences of the condition was that the dam as it It is now known that stood was not more safe against sucCambria Iron Works are not damcessive floods, from its inferior conaged as badly as was feared. Half a million dollars will cover the loss.struction, than the original dam would have been with a crest only three and a half to four feet high above the bottom of the rock spillway, instead of seven feet. A large amount of the old riprapping and sloped wall still remains intact, and is of excellent quality. It does not appear that there was any great amount of leakage through the dam A. M. Wellington and F. P. before it broke. The destruction Burt, associate editors of the came from water flowing over the Engineering News of New York, top. Wellington said that no engihave completed an examination of neer of known and good standing the dam which caused the great for such work could possibly have disaster. been engaged on it, since, in the report. To an Associated Press corWellington states that the dam particulars mentioned, it violated respondent Dr. Sweet said: 'Prosis full of pneumonia pect Hill was in every respect of very infer- the most elementary and universally with some diphtheria and measles. ior construction and of the kind understood requirements of good The hospital is full to overflowing, wholly unwarranted by the good practice. and there are forty-two cases outengineering practices of thirty years Estimates of the original dam in- side. They were almost all severe ago. Both the original and recon- dicate that it to be made pneumonia. There is every structed dams were of earth only, about half of earth and half of rock,dition needed for the spread of the with no heart wall, and but only but if so, there was little evidence disease, and I fear an epidemic.' rip-rapped on the slopes. The ori- of it in the broken dam. The ripginal dam, however, was made in rapping was merely a skin on each rammed and watered layers, which face, with more or less loose spauls still show distinctly in the wrecked mixed with the earth. The dam places. The new end merely added was twelve feet above the water, to its stability; but it was to all ap- twenty-one feet inside the slope and pearance simply dumped in like or- twenty feet wide on top. The rock dinary railroad fill, or, if rammed, throughout was about one foot beshows no evidence or good effect low the surface. The earth was from it. Much of the old is standing pretty good material for such a intact, while adjacent parts of the dam, if it was to be built of it at new works are wholly carried all, being of a clay nature. To this off. There was no central wall of fact its standing intact since 1881 puddle or masonry either in the must be ascribed, as no engineer of old or new dam. It had been an in- standing would have ever tried to variable practice of engineers thirty so construct it. The fact that the or forty years ago to use one or the dam was a reconstructed one after other in building high dams of earth. over twenty years of abandonment The reconstructed dam also bears made it especially hard on the older the marks of great carelessness in part of the dam to withstand the having been made two feet lower in pressure of the water. the middle than at the Eight thousand men were at ends. It should rather work June 7 clearing out the have been downed in the debris, but truth compels the middle, which would have concen- statement that the undertaking trated the overflow, if it should oc- had not yet been fairly started. cur, at the ends instead of in the Fires were burning up and down the centre. Had the break begun at the valley as far as the eye could reach, ends, the cut of the water would and the air was thick with smoke, and have been so gradual that little or yet people familiar with the situano harm might have resulted. Had tion, and aware of the efforts of the dam been at once cut at the ends this army of earnest workmen, eswhen the water began running over timated that it would take 20,000men the centre, the sudden breaking of for weeks to clear out the heaps of the dam would at least have been ruin piled up for miles between the greatly diminished, possibly pro- hills and up and down the course of longed, so that little harm might the river. have resulted. The crest of the old A correspondent, dam had not been raised in the reconJohnstown June 7, says: struction of 1881. The old overflow channel through the rock still re- "An hour ago the writer completed mains at the end, but owing to the a tour of the mighty wreck in this Dozens of human beings sag of the crest in the middle of the vicinity. A trap was laid for the undertaker Jam having only 5 feet of water in and animals were to be seen on the who was robbing bodies in the it instead of 7 feet, it was necessary surface, charred and blackened by Fourth Ward morgue. to run the waterway over the crest, fire, and in such decomposition that was brought, and before it was and the rock spill-way, narrow at the strongest men could not more dressed for burial a diamond ring best, had been further contracted than glance at them. Eighty-six was placed on one of her fingers and by close grating to prevent the es- men from Altoona, under orders of the undertaker was assigned to take Capped cape of fish. by good- the sanitary officials, are scattering care of the body. He was detected over acres of the in the act of stealing jewelry and sized lumber and in some slight disinfectants degree also by the trestle at the foot wreckage that the railroad bridge promptly arrested by the police, who of the bridge, the original discharge stopped. Mr. Kirk declares thous-immediately took him to Pittsburg. pipes at the foot of the dam had ands of bodies will yet be found in A dispatch dated Johnstown June been permanently closed when re- this territory alone. The great trousays: constructed, and this, while a minor ble thus far experienced at the bridge matter compared to others men- has been caused by the mass of tioned, further reduced the possible telegraph wire that reaches across

writing at

"The community is in the wildest excitement as a result of the recent The blame for the entire flood. affair has been placed on the South Fork Fishing Club, and so angry are some people in this city that peril is feared for W. S. Boyer, superintendent at the cottages on the lake. One of the pretty villas has been broken into and the furniture broken. One of the boats owned by the club was stolen in daylight, and reduced to kindling wood by an infuriated crowd. A liquor-crazed fellow, who broke into the cottages, was not discovered. robbery

It was evident that was not his intent.

Affairs at present are assuming an aspect that is dangerous. The coroner's jury, that has been in session all day at Nineveh, terminated its labors today. Their verdict is fully prepared, and only lacks the signatures of the jury before it is given publicity. It is understood that after reviewing at length the careless breaks of the past years, it declares the executive committee of the South Fork Fishing Club guilty of gross if not criminal neglect."

9

A female

"The health of the valley is unusually good, notwithstanding re

ports of the threatened epidemic. The following bulletin has been issued by the State Board of Health, and speaks for itself. It was posted today in every conspicuous place: 'Health bulletin. The general health of Johnstown and vicinity is excellent. No epidemic disease of any kind prevails, nor is it expected that any will arise. The whole region has been divided into districts, and each place is under a competent

sanitarian. The state board of health is prepared to meet all emergencies as they arise. The air is wholesome, and the water generally pure. If the good people of the devastated district will go on as they have so nobly done for the past week, in their efforts to clean up the wreckage, the good health will certainly be maintained."

(Signed) GEORGE J. GROFF.'” Miss Walk and Miss Ely, of the Northern Home for Friendless Children, returned to Philadelphia June 8, and took with them the Hoffman family cf nine children. These little ones were found in an utterly destitute condition, as both parents and the eldest sister were drowned in the flood. The ladies will return to assist in the work of

"As I rode back to the dam I ex-
pected almost every moment to meet
the lake coming down on me, but
the dam was still intact, although
the water had reached the top. At
about one o'clock I walked over the
dam; at that time the water was
three inches deep on it, and was
gradually eating away the earth on
the outer face. As the stream rolled
The Pittsburg Commercial prints
the following account of the break-down the outer face it kept wearing
ing of the dam, from the lips of and I saw it was merely a question
down the edge of the embankment.
John G. Parke, Jr., a civil engineer, of time. I then went up to the
who was engaged on the grounds of club-house and got dinner, and
the South Fork Club:
when I returned I saw that a good
deal more of the dam had crumbled
away.

administering relief, etc. Up to the
latest advices there has been re-
markably conflicting estimates of
the number of lives lost. Figures
from 3000 to 12000 have been given.
It will be a long time probably be-
fore an approximately correct esti-
mate can be ma le.

"On Thursday night the dam was
in perfect condition, and the water
was not within seven feet of the
top. At that stage the lake is nearly
three miles long. It rained very
hard Thursday night, I am told, for
I slept too soundiy myself to hear it,
but when I got up Friday morning
I could see there was a flood, for the
water was over the drive in front of
the clubhouse, and the level of the
water in the lake had risen until it
was only four feet below the top of
the dam. I rode up to the head of
the lake and saw that the woods
were boiling full of water. South
Fork and Muddy Run, which
emptied into the lake were
aiding the children, who have lost fetching down trees, logs, cut
all. Miss Hinckley, head of the timber, and stuff from a saw-
Children's Aid Society of Phila- mill that was up in the woods in
delphia at the headquarters that direction. This was about 7:30
of the Fourth ward morgue, is one
o'clock. When I returned, Col.
of the busiest young women in the Unger, the president of the club,
valley. The applications for chil- hired twenty-two Italians, and a
dren thus far exceeds the number of number of farmers joined in to work
children thus far provided for. Miss on the dam. Altogether thirty men
Hinckley says the object of her soci-
were at work. A plough was run
ety is to unite parents and children along the top of the dam, and earth
rather than send them away from was thrown in the face of the dam
Johnstown, although the little ones
to strengthen it. At the same
will be provided for if their parents time a channel was dug on the
are not found. There are plenty of west end of the dam to make
Johnstown people who will adopt a sluice-way there. There were
these children and bring them up about three feet of slate rock through
as citizens of Johnstown, instead of
which it was possible to cut, but
sending them outside. Miss Maggie then we struck bed-rock that was
Brooks, the only resident member impossible to get into without blast-
of this society who was not ing. When we got the channel
drowned, is a school teacher here. opened the water soon scoured
She spends her time in hunt-down to the bed-rock, and a stream
ing every house for
around for parents and children.
When a child is found it is sent to
headquarters, and note and descrip-
tion made of it. When any of the
child's relatives or parents are
found they are sent to headquarters,
and in this way many families have
been re-united. The object of the
Western Pennsylvania Society is to
furnish temporary as well as perma-

nent homes for the orphans.

miles

A dispatch from Johnstown dated June 9 says:

"The dam did not give way. At a rough guess I should say that there were sixty millions of tons of water in that lake, and the pressure of that mass of water was increased by floods from two streams pouring into it, but the dam would have stood it could the level of the lake have been kept below the top of the dam. But the friction of the water pouring over the dam gradually wore it away from the outer face until the top became so thin that it gave way.

"The break took place at three at first and shallow, but now tha: o'clock. It was about ten feet wide wider with increasing rapidity, and the flood had made a gap it grew the lake went roaring down the valley. That three miles of water utes. The downfall of those milwas drained out in forty-five min lions of tons was simply irresistible. Stones from the dam and boulders in the river bed were carried for

miles. Trees went down like you
may cut a mullein stalk with a
rible sight to see that avalanche of
It was a ter
swish of your cane.
water go down that valley already
choked with floods.
was completely prostrated by it and
was laid up at the club-house sick
from his experiences.”

REMARKS

Col. Unger

the Sanpete Stake Conference, held at Manti, Sunday and Moti• day, May 19 and 20, 1889.

twenty feet wide and three deep By President Wilford Woodruff, at
rushed out on that end of the aam,
while the weir was letting out an
enormous quantity on the other end.
Notwithstanding these outlets the
water kept rising at the rate of about
ten inches an hour.

"By 11:30 I had made up my
mind that it was impossible to save
the dam, and getting on my horse I
galloped down the road to South
Fork to warn the people of their
danger. The telegraph tower is a
mile from the town, and I sent two
"The work of the registration of men there to have messages sent to
the surv vors of the flood is going Johnstown and other points below.
steadily on. Up to this evening I heard that the lady operator
there were about 21,000 registered, fainted when she had sent off the
and the list is still increasing. The news and had to be carried off. The
number lost is now placed at 5000 people of South Fork had ample
by those who held it would reach time to get to the high grounds and
10,000 a week ago. The conserva- they were able to move their furni-
tive estimate is between 3500 and ture, too. In fact only one person
4000. Up to date there have been was drowned at South Fork,
and he while attempting to fish
The dispatches sent out from something from the flood as it rolled
Johnstown since the foregoing infor- by. It was just 12 o'clock when the
was
message
mation was received, relate almost telegraph
entirely to the progress made in re- out, so that the people of Johns-
moving debris, recovering bodies, town had over three hours' warning.

1500 bcdies recovered."

REPORTED BY A. WINTER.

After an absence of five years,

come

through the providence of God we are again permitted to meet with our friends in Sanpete. This is a privilege that we greatly prize. It is a great blessing to be able here as free men, and to have the opportunity of opening our mouths and teaching the people as we are moved upon by the Spirit of the Lord. I have no right to say that it has been so long since we preached to the people that we have forgotten how; but I have a right to say that we are just as much dependent today upon the Lord for His Holy Spirit, to guide us in our teaching and instruction to the people, as we ever sent were. And in order for us to enjoy this blessing, we need the faith and prayers of the Latter-day Saints