Cholera outbreak in Zion's Camp (1834): prayers, prophecy, and rescue

Both accounts describe the cholera epidemic that struck Zion's Camp during the 1834 campaign. According to Milo Andrus, before the company crossed the Mississippi River he and a number of fellow elders went into the dense forest and offered a fervent prayer asking the Lord to spare their lives and permit their return to their families; Andrus reported that when the cholera appeared two weeks after they landed on Fishing River in Clay County, Missouri, not one of the elders who had offered that prayer was taken by the disease, while thirteen other brethren perished. Harrison Burgess's account places the outbreak in June 1834 after Joseph Smith had warned that “the Lord would send in a scourge upon us” in consequence of murmuring; Burgess wrote that the cholera struck rapidly (he says “in a few hours” after the prediction) and that “some eighteen of our brethren” fell victim. Burgess also recounts personal involvement: he attended and helped bury his brother John S. Carter, was himself violently seized by the disease, and was rescued from the grasp of death through faith and the kind assistance of Brother Zerah Cole. The merged account preserves both men’s details and attributions: the forest prayer and reported protection of those elders (Milo Andrus), the Prophet’s prediction and rapid onset (Harrison Burgess; Joseph Smith), the differing reported death counts (Andrus’s report of 13 versus Burgess’s report of about 18), and Burgess’s personal rescue and burial of John S. Carter with help from Zerah Cole.