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Transcript for "On the River," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 3 Aug. 1868, 2

ON THE RIVER.—Of an encampment of saints near Council Bluffs, seventeen were sun-struck on the 20th instant. Only two of the cases, we are glad to learn, proved fatal; the other persons, though prostrated for a time, were all likely to recover.

Several hundred Mormon emigrants were camped on the Omaha side of the Missouri, on the way to Utah. So says the Council Bluffs Democrat, of the 22d inst.