"Sunday [ ] did not travel [ ] the day warm [ ] Brother Fairbanks got bit with a rattle snake which made him very sick but he recovered [ ] he had with some of the other Brethern been teasing a snake to make it mad and it was not half an hour before he was bit by a snake of the same species [ ] we had a meeting in the afternoon [ ] Brigham spoke to us [ ] said he felt well as regards the movement of this camp [ ] that a good Spirit prevailed amongst us [ ] that we had obeyed every council he had given us [ ] that we had done all in our power [ ] that his peace with God was like a river [ ] that he never felt better in his life than he did on this journey and he felt to bless us in the name of the Lord [ ] encouraged us to go forth in our work that we might increase in knowledge and understanding [ ] he also told us that there were many principles to be taught us that could not be done on the prairie but in a house for that purpose and in a stake of Zion and said that all who were faithful should obtain those blessings and be perfectfully satisfied [ ] several of the brethern spoke and also expresed their good feelings [ ] in the evening we had a gust of wind and rain which continued blowing all night [ ] very cold"
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(Image and information via DUP booklet "The First Company to Enter Salt Lake Valley")
Nathaniel Fairbanks was the one who had been bitten by a rattlesnake. He had been teasing the snake thus making it mad. The snake got him as he was jumping off a small bluff.
........."Within two minutes his tongue began to feel numb, and he was in much pain. His two companions bound tobacco leaves and turpentine to the swelling leg, and in camp Luke S. Johnson gave him a dose of lobelia after a strong drink of alcohol and water. The lobelia soon caused him to vomit powerfully. He suffered a great deal."
The distance between Ash Hollow and Chimney Rock is around 85 miles and they are somewhere between those two sites and getting very close to Chimney Rock.
