At Devil’s gate the rescuers decided that the handcart company, with the help from the rescue party and some wagons, should move on to find a sheltered place where wood was procurable. Loaded with the sick and dying, the wagons were to move along the Sweetwater and cross to a depression, later to be known as Martin's Cove. The handcarts moved November 3 and reached the river, floating with ice. To cross would require more courage and fortitude, it seemed, than human nature could muster.
"Three eighteen-year-old boys belonging to the relief party, came to the rescue; and to the astonishment of all who saw, carried nearly every member of that ill-fated handcart company across the snow-bound stream. The strain was so terrible and the exposure so great, that in later years all the boys died from the effects of it. When President Brigham Young heard of this heroic act, he wept like a child, and later declared publicly, 'That act alone with ensure . . [them] an everlasting salavation in the Celestial Kingdom of God, worlds without end.'"
There are three heart-breaking statues representing the young men carrying people across the Sweetwater at the Martin's Cove visitor's center. This is one of them.
"Three eighteen-year-old boys belonging to the relief party, came to the rescue; and to the astonishment of all who saw, carried nearly every member of that ill-fated handcart company across the snow-bound stream. The strain was so terrible and the exposure so great, that in later years all the boys died from the effects of it. When President Brigham Young heard of this heroic act, he wept like a child, and later declared publicly, 'That act alone with ensure . . [them] an everlasting salavation in the Celestial Kingdom of God, worlds without end.'"
There are three heart-breaking statues representing the young men carrying people across the Sweetwater at the Martin's Cove visitor's center. This is one of them.
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