"Fri. 1. [June 1866] -- The ship Cavour sailed from Hamburg, Germany, with 201 Scandinavian Saints, under the direction of Niels Nielsen. The company arrived in New York, July 31st, and at Wyoming [Nebraska], Aug. 1st."
CC, p.75
". . . Another company of emigrating Saints, bound for Utah, sailed from Copengagen at 1 o'clock p.m. on May 28, 1866, on the steamship 'Aurora'. The weather was fine and continued thus during the following night. On the morning of the 29th the emigrants arrived at Kiel (Holstein), where a stop of about three hours was made in order to bring their luggage to the railway station. The journey was then continued to Altona, where the emigrants arrived at 1 p.m. The Norwegians and others went on board the ship 'Humboldt' three hours later, while others boarded the ship 'Cavour.' Of the large company of Saints which had sailed from Copenhagen, May 28th, 201 souls, who boarded the Norwegian ship 'Cavour,' sailed from Hamburg June 1, 1866. The 'Cavour' was commanded by Captain Floyn, and Elder Niels Nielsen, a Utah elder, was appointed president of the company with Jens Gregorsen and Carl Fred. Rundquist as his assistants. This ship had, on account of head winds, calm and fog, a long voyage, notwithstanding the vessel took the shortest route, vis., through the English Channel. The emigrants were organized into four districts in charge of Elders Jens Gregorsen, Carl
F. Rundquist, a Brother Jacobsen and Ole Nielsen. Two old sisters, who had been sick for several years, and two children died during the voyage. The 'Cavour' arrived in New York July 31st, and the emigrants were at once conveyed over the same route as the one taken previously by the 'Kenilworth' company; they arrived at Wyoming, Aug. 11, 1866. Already, on board the 'Cavour,' cholera had broken out among the emigrants. It made its first appearance in Brother L. Larsen's family, of whom most of the members died later. But on the travel by railway that terrible malady raged fiercely among the emigrants, claiming its victims one by one. The rough treatment the emigrants received was in part responsible for the heavy death rate. Just before the train arrived at St. Joseph, Missouri, one of the passenger cars took fire, and it was with great exertion that the sick were removed from it to escape from being burned to death. At St. Joseph a number of sick and dying had to be left in the hands of wicked people. Their friends obtained no further knowledge as to their fate, and never learned whether they were buried alive, or killed by force, for the people there were seemingly so hateful, that they actually thirsted for the blood of the Saints. On the voyage by steamer up the Missouri River nine of the emigrants died, four of them being buried one night and five of them the next. . . .
. . . When the 'Cavour' company arrived at Wyoming [Nebraska] there was no time to rest, as the last train of the Church teams had already waited a long time for the arrival of these emigrants, and it was now so late in the season that the start across the plains could be postponed no longer, with any hope of getting across the mountains that year. Consequently, this cholera infested company had to get ready in the greatest haste for the long and wearisome journey, and on August 13th the emigrants left Wyoming with sixty ox teams in charge of Captain Abner Lowry.
If the details of the journey across the plains of this company were written, it would probably present one of the most pitiable and heartrending chapters in the history of the Church, but it is perhaps better to close the episode and not revive the memory of something so touching and sorrowful. At some future day, undoubtedly, more details will be published about the experience of that ill-fated company, and in the great hereafter those who laid down their lives on the way will have an opportunity to give an accurate and truthful account of their sufferings. The survivors of Captain Lowry's company arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 22, 1866. . . ."
HSM, pp.193, 194
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