Ivan 1937 - 1950     page 5 Well, everyone looked at the fire and abandoned the place. (It was on a block where the county started. It was only a quarter of an ordinary block wide and a block long. There were several businesses on the block, including Wilber's store on the other end to the west. Then there was about equal space from there across the street to Carroll's service station. To the other end was the post office. I don't know how come I was there, but I was. I would guess it was by invitation. The whole block seemed doomed to destruction. I was working in the basement of Wilber's store, there were several of us working there. I had just unloaded a sack of something into a truck at the rear of the store, and BOOM went the butane truck and the whole building shivered. I was standing in the doorway of the store and here came the rest of the men who were unloading the building. By this time there was a lot of timber up in the air and coming down. I hollered STOP and waved at the men and boys, but they kept on coming. I moved inside and they ran out to the truck. About that time there was a whole load of burning timber lit in the middle of the truck. Here they came back as fast as they had run to the truck. By that time it had quit falling. Then we undertook to get it out of the truck. Eldred Jarvis was up on the roof with a water hose. The moment that it blew up he turned tail and headed west in high gear, running as fast as he could go. The roof was nearly twenty feet from the ground. He went sailing off as fast as he could run. His legs were working as fast as if he were on the ground. He lit running, did not fall down or anything, but ran off into the sunset. Carroll Shumway and his wife were standing part way up the sidewalk; he ran as fast as he could go dragging his wife behind him as she couldn't keep up with him. The sheriff was speaking to Harold Greer. He turned and moved off. As the BOOM went off he turned and saw the sheriff killed beside him. He also saw ______ Wilhelm die beside him. Darwin Grant was crossing the street and looked up just in time to get hit on the head by a burning 2x4 and go down. Harold pulled them all to safety inside Patterson's garage. There were others who helped Harold. Sister Hale was crossing the street on the north end when it blew, and it hit her just below the hip and tore her up considerably. It blew 2x4s as far as a quarter mile away. It took quite a while to rebuild. Following are some church jobs I have tried to do: Ward Genealogy Chairman, Sunday School Teacher, Y.M.I.A. President, Elders Quorum President, Explorer Advisor, Deacons Quorum Advisor, Sunday School Superintendent, West Samoan Missionary '34 to '37, St. Johns 2nd Ward Genealogy Chairman, Teachers Quorum Advisor, Casa Grand Sunday School Teacher, Genealogy Teacher, Stake Missionary with Joel Perry, President 104th Quorum of Seventies with A.R. Ivins, ordained a Seventy by Matthew Cowley 1952, Stake Mission with C.F. Webb. Vision of the Horses: After I finished there [Gallup?] one Friday night I was going home in my little Model A car. (The brakes weren't very good). As I came up the road there was a curve around to the right and I saw what was there before I got there. It was an Indian girl with a herd of sheep. I kind of wondered about that. Why was that so important. Humm. Before long I came to another curve in the road. Hummm. I was going up hill this time and all of a sudden I saw a man walking up the road. (I hadn't seen him. I had only visualized him.) I came over the top and there he was. I had made up my mind to pick him up when I first saw him. (In my mind.) It was a Navajo and I stopped and I asked him if he would like a ride. "Sure," he said and I opened the door and he got in. Well, I thought that's the answer. I have poor brakes, that's it. Well, we rode along for about five miles. "That's where I live," he said pointing to the hogan up the hill a little way. I stopped and let him out.