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B. H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol.4, Ch.95, pp.28-30 (continued, paragraphing and emphasis added):

In 1852 [Uncle] Charles Decker, bringing in the mail from Laramie had a narrow escape from death at the hands of hostile Indians, on which occasion he met with “Kit” Carson, “to whose intercession he ascribed his deliverance.” On the same journey he met with the following trying experience chronicled by [Uncle] Brigham Young:
“Brother Charles Decker arrived from Laramie with the eastern mail. He had to swim every river between this and Laramie. The mail coach and mules were lost at Ham’s Fork, where the mail lay under water from one to seven p. m.; the lead horses were saved by being cut loose. Brother Decker was in the ice water with the mail all the time, and then exhausted, had no resource but to wrap himself in robes and blankets, wet as water could make them, till morning, when he found himself in a free perspiration, fully relieved from a fever he had been laboring under most of the time since he left the city.

“Brother [Uncle] Ephraim K. Hanks [about the same time had] proceeded as far as Bear river with the eastern mail. At Weber river the raft on which he and party crossed was sucked under, forcing them to swim for their lives: the mail was carried down the stream and lay in the water upward of two hours. After a great deal of trouble and at the risk of their lives they secured it, but in bad condition. On reaching Bear river, which was a foaming torrent, extending from mountain to mountain, they found it impossible to proceed.”

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