Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
About the same time Brother Benson came up near me and readily got hold
of the boat. Brother Alma L. Smith came up on the opposite side of the
boat from Brother Benson and myself. He was considerably strangled, but
succeeded in securing a hold on the boat.
A short time afterwards the captain was discovered, about fifty yards
from us. Two sailors, one on each side, succeeded in keeping him on the
surface, although life was apparently extinct.
Nothing yet had been seen of Brother Snow, although the natives had
been swimming and diving in every direction in search of him. We were
only about one-fourth of a mile from shore. The people, as soon as
they discovered our circumstances, manned a life boat and hurried to
the rescue. We were taken into the boat, when the crew wanted to row
for the shore, and pick up the captain by the way. We told them that
one of our friends was yet missing, and we did not want to leave. We
discovered that a second boat had left the shore and could reach the
captain as soon as the one we were in. Seeing this, the crew of our
boat consented to remain and assist us.
The captain was taken ashore, and by working over him sometime was
brought to life. Probably his life would not have been much endangered
but for a sack of four or five hundred silver dollars which he held
in his hand, the weight of which took him at once to the bottom. The
natives dove and brought him up, still clinging to the sack. When his
vitality was restored, the first thing he inquired about was the money;
intimating to the natives, with peculiar emphasis, that it would not
have been healthy for them to have lost it.
Brother Snow had not yet been discovered, and the anxiety was intense.
The natives were, evidently, doing all in their power.
Finally, one of them, in edging himself around the capsized boat, must
have felt Brother Snow with his feet and pulled him, at least, partly
from under it, as the first I saw of Brother Snow was his hair floating
upon the water around one end of the capsized boat. As soon as we got
him into our boat, we told the boatmen to pull for the shore with all
possible speed. His body was stiff, and life apparently extinct.
Brother A. L. Smith and I were sitting side by side. We laid Brother
Snow across our laps, and, on the way to shore, we quietly administered
to him and asked the Lord to spare his life, that he might return to
his family and home.
On reaching the shore, we carried him a little way to some large empty
barrels that were lying on the sandy beach. We laid him face downwards
on one of them, and rolled him back and forth until we succeeded in
getting the water he had swallowed out of him.
During this time a number of persons came down from the town; among
them was Mr. E. P. Adams, a merchant. All were willing to do what they
could. We washed Brother Snow's face with camphor, furnished by Mr.
Adams. We did not only what was customary in such cases, but also what
the Spirit seemed to whisper to us.
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