John E. Forsgren's Vision of the Burning of Gefle

After a public prosecutor burned a picture of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Elder John E. Forsgren had a vision of the city of Gefle being destroyed by fire. He prophesied to his friends that this would happen and that they would be in America when it occurred. Nineteen years later, the city was destroyed by a conflagration that began in the very house where the picture had been burned.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 62, No. 37 (13 September 1900)):

Elder Peter Forsgren relates a remarkable incident. His brother was one day summoned to the office of the public prosecutor, and the latter asked him if he had a picture of the Prophet Joseph. He procured a picture and the officer set fire to it. While it was burning Elder John Forsgren had a vision, in which he saw the city of Gefle destroyed by fire. He told his friends of this vision, and also that they would be in America when the visitation would take place. Nineteen years from the date of the burning of Joseph’s picture, the city of Gefle was almost totally destroyed by fire, and the conflagration started in the very house where the picture of the Prophet had been sacrificed to the flames.