[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Oct 15th 1846 This was a serious day to me. I took my ax and went into the woods to cut some board timber in company with two other brethren. While falling the third tree I steped back from the tree several feet. But when it fell it shot back of the stump several feet & bounded and struck me in the breast & knocked me several feet into the air against a standing Oak. And the fallen tree caught me against the standing oak and I came down crushed between the two trees. I badly brused my left thigh and Hip and left arm broke my breast bone into about 6 inches and broke 3 ribs on my left side, bruised my lungs and vitals. After the accident I sat down upon a log and waited until Br John Garrison went a quarter of a mile to get my horse.
Notwithstanding I was so badly hurt I had to mount my horse and ride 2 1/2 miles over a rough road my bones being so badly broaken evry stept went through me like an arrow. I rode to Turkey Creek And was exhausted. Was there taken off and carried in a chair home. Elders Young, Kimball, Richards and others met me in the street and assisted me home. I was laid upon my bed exhausted whare I lay without being able to moove much untill my bones knit together. They began to knit on the 9th day but I was not able to sit up in bed untill the 1st of Nov.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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