Frank Thatcher, Robert Anderson, and Winslow Farr's miraculous survival in a train collision

While traveling to Europe to fulfill missionary calls, Frank Thatcher, Robert Anderson, and Winslow Farr were riding on a train that collided with a freight train. The crash was violent enough to cut two train cars in two, killing one railroad man and severely injuring a fireman. Despite the severity of the wreck, the three Elders were standing near the tracks and escaped without any injury.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 59, No. 15, 15 April 1897, p. 235):

Elders Frank Thatcher, Robert Anderson and Winslow Farr, who left Salt Lake City on the 17th of March, for the European mission, had a narrow escape from death on the 20th of March, at Green River, Wyoming. The train on which they were traveling collided with a freight train, the force of the impact being so great that two of the cars were cut in two. One railroad man was killed and a fireman was severely injured, but the Elders, who were standing near the track, escaped without a scratch.