Martin Schweigert's miraculous survival after a sixty-foot fall
Published October 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Millennial Star Research
Martin Schweigert, a Bavarian, fell down a sixty-foot shaft in John Beck's mine in Tintic. Despite the distance of the fall, he did not break a single bone and was expected to recover from his bruises.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 46, No. 36 (8 September 1884), p. 576):
Martin Schweigert, a Bavarian, fell down a sixty-foot shaft in John Beck's mine in Tintic. He did not break a single bone, and is expected to recover from his bruises.
In Their Own Words
“Martin Schweigert, a Bavarian, fell down a shaft in John Beck's mine in Tintic, lately, a distance of sixty feet, and yet, wonderful to relate, never broke a bone, and it is said he will soon recover from the bruises which he sustained. — Millennial Star 46:36”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 8 September 1884 (Vol. 46, No. 36). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1884-09-08_46_36 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 46, No. 36 (8 September 1884), p. 576 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1884-09-08_46_36
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