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On Sunday, May 15, 1853, Henry counseled the settlers not to scatter out on the city lots, to strengthen the fort and make it secure, to lock the gates every night and to have their guns and ammunition on hand. He recommended that the brethren establish a herd and have someone stay with the cattle at all times. Samuel Kershaw agreed to guard the herd for three dollars a day. Henry and Ellen planted a garden on Thursday, May 19. Henry wrote: About '/2 past 4 p.m. it began to thunder and lightning over Shirt's Canyon and, in a few minutes, the whole heavens were black with clouds and the lightning and thunder began to approach very near and was tremendously loud. The wind began to blow in a most t e d c manner and large drops of rain descended. I and Ellen went into the house. She sat down near to the fireplace and I went to the wood pile for some wood for the fire. As I came through the door, I pushed it wide open and, just as I was in the attitude of laying the wood down by the side of the fireplace, the electric fluid struck the chimney of the house accompanied by the loudest burst of thunder I ever before heard--knocked a part of the chimney down, rent the house from top to bottom, blew the mantle piece to pieces, took a piece out of the floor, knocked the bottom out of a Keeler which was full of water, made a hole in a box, knocked the plaster off the wall, tore one of the shoes to pieces on my wife's foot and a large hole into the other and took the use out of both of her legs for some time. I had to carry her out of the house, and at the same time my own legs were burning with heat as though I had been in a fire. We were both of us sensible at the time, and are now. Had it not been for an overruling providence which had shielded us from the danger, we most certainly should have, both of us, been instantly killed.
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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