Brigham Young's and his companions' miraculous preservation of the steamboat Columbus

While traveling on Lake Erie, the steamboat Columbus ran against a pier covered in an immense body of ice, sliding up onto the ice out of the water, but then slid back into the water without receiving any damage.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

The boat stopped at Erie, Pa. We had no freight and but few passengers, and coming out of the harbor she ran against the pier, which was covered with an immense body of ice. She struck it with such force that she ran right up on the ice out of the water, and remained a short time, and then slid backwards into the water without damage. We felt that the hand of the Lord was in this, for had she not run upon the ice, she would have sunk in deep water, and we should have all been lost.