"THE FIRST COMPANY. -- The Guion S. S. Nevada sailed from Liverpool for New York on Saturday, April 17th, with 179 emigrating Saints. Of these 89 were from Scandinavia
, one from Switzerland, and the rest from Great Britain. There were included in the company 17 returning missionaries. Just before starting President Wells addressed the company, and organized them with Elder E. T. Wooley as president, and Elders C. J. Stromberg and J. L. McMurrin as his counselors. May God's blessing attend them on their journey to Zion."
MS, 48:16 (Apr. 19, 1886), p.250
"Sat. 17. [Apr. 1886] . . . The steamship Nevada sailed form Liverpool, Engalnd, with 179 Saints, under the direction of Elder E. T. Woolley. The company arrived at New York on the 27th, and at Salt Lake City, May 4th."
CC, p.131
". . . A company of Saints emigrating to Zion (69 souls) and four returning elders sailed from Copenhagen, April 8, 1886, for England. Elder Charles J. Stomberg was appointed leader of the company to England. The other returning elders were: Jeppa Jeppsson, Thomas R. Schroder and Peter W. Peterson. After an uneventful voyage the emigrants arrived in England, whence the journey was continued to Liverpool by rail. Here the emigrants, together with other emigrating Saints from the British Isles, went on board the steamship 'Nevada' April 16th. The following day (April 17th) the company was organized by President Daniel H. Wells with Elder Edwin T. Wooley as leader and Charles J. Stromberg and James L. McMurrin as his assistants. During the voyage three meetings were held on board, one of them in the first class cabin. The captain was exceedingly kind and obliging to the Saints, and the weather was pleasant, the wind being favorable, and the Saints had a good time, except that a few of them suffered a little with seasickness. The ship arrived in New York, April 27th, and the Saints were landed at Castle Garden in the evening. The same day (April 27th) the company left New York and traveled by rail via Chicago and Omaha to Ogden, where they arrived safe and well early in the morning of May 4, 1886. The train on which they traveled was delayed 12 hours at Laramie, Wyoming, on account of a strike among the laborers. A similar tie up occurred at Rawlings, Wyoming. The strikers permitted the train to go on, if the conductor would agree to go through without a brakeman, the strike being on this occasion among the brakemen of the road. The conductor, agreeing to do this, the journey was continued and finished without further molestation.
A small company of emigrating Saints, under the leadership of Elder James Nielsen, sailed from Christiania, Norway, April 9, 1886, for England, and after a safe voyage across the North Sea this company reached Liverpool in good condition and there joined the larger company of Scandinavian emigrants, which had sailed from Copenhagen, April 8th, and traveled with them across the Atlantic Ocean and the continent of America to Utah. . . ."
HSM, p.296
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