aphy, 89.
ons, and in the long procession might be seen vehicles
of all descriptions, from the lumbering cart, under
whose awning lay stretched its fever-stricken driver,
to the veriest makeshifts of poverty, the wheelbarrow
or the two-wheeled trundle, in which was dragged
along a bundle of clothing and a sack of meal — all of
this world's goods that the owner possessed.
On arriving at the banks of the Missouri, the wagons were drawn up in double lines and in the form of squares. Between the lines, tents were pitched at intervals, space being left between each row for a passage-way, which was shaded with awnings or a lattice-work of branches, and served as a promenade for convalescents and a playground for children.
And what became of Nauvoo? The temple was destroyed by fire and tempest,**' and all the wood-work consumed, while the rock was utilized for miles around as foundations of houses, for door-steps, and other pur- poses. A French company coming in later bought the stone from those in possession, and built wine-vaults. Foundations of buildings were broken up, and houses once surrounded by carefully tended flower-gardens, pillaged of all that was valuable, were now abandoned by their ruthless destroyers.*^ "At present," writes Linforth, "the Icariansform the most important part of the population of Nauvoo . . . They live in a long ugly row of buildings, the architect of which and of the school-house was a cobbler." In the house built for the prophet and his family dwelt in 1854 the prophet's widow, his mother, and his family.*^
- The temple was half deetroyod by fire ou Z'J'ov. 19, 1848. Nauvoo Pa-
triot, in Millennial Star, xi. p. 46; and on May 27, 1850, further damaged by a tornado. Hancock Patriot, in Mackay's The Mormons, 210. For cut of remnants, see Linforth's Route from Liverpool to G. S. L. Valley, 62, and Hyde's Mormonism, 140. See also George Q. Cannon, in Juvenile Instructor, vol. ix. no. 5, and WelW Narrative, MS., 41; Deseret News, Aug. 24, 1850; Frontier Guardian, July 24, 1850.
- i As James Linforth describes in writing of Nauvoo in 1858.
- ^ Route from Liverpool to G. S. L. Valley, 63.
