Marriner W. Merrill — Logging Accident Survival

“I did not conceive what to do under the trying ordeal, but concluded to ask the Lord to help me, which I did in earnest prayer. After calling upon the Lord, I found myself in a few minutes, I cannot say how, extricated from under the log, and my team hitched to the sled, and the logs loaded on the sled, and I was placed on top of the load. Who it was that extricated me from under the log, loaded my sled, hitched my oxen to it, and placed me on it, I cannot say, but I know for a surety no one was in the canyon that day but myself. Hence I must give the Lord, or my Guardian Angel, credit for saving my life in extricating me from so perilous a situation. — Marriner W. Merrill, Autobiography of Marriner Wood Merrill”