David Richards' miraculous healing of a broken back

“On Friday, the 23rd of last August, while I was in the coal mine, at about 11 o’clock in the morning, a stone fell upon me, which weighed about two hundred pounds. Then I was carried home, in quite a hopeless state. Soon I was visited by a doctor, who said there was nothing he could do for me, and he ordered that I should be wrapped up in a sheet. There was a lump on my back as big as a child’s head. The doctor wished to receive a report at about six o’clock as to my condition. In the meantime two elders of the Saints came to me, and they administered the ordinance of the church to me; but I cannot say that I was any better. Lewis Richards was sent to report to the doctor, according to his request; and the answer he gave was, that everything was over for me. But the next morning, while the same elder was administering to me again, I felt the pain leaving me completely, and my backbone, which was disjoined, coming together. From that time on I healed quickly, and I increased in strength daily, to the point that I am now able to walk some miles, and I come as far as Georgetown from Abercanaid to bear my testimony of this. The doctor testified, when he first came to see me, that my backbone was broken; and when he came the second time, after I had received the blessing, he said in the hearing of Esther John and my wife, that the bone had gone back into place and had come together, and that I had recovered more remarkably than any man he had ever seen. — Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), September 1850 (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”