Miraculous Preservation of Elders during the Galveston Flood

During the devastating hurricane and flood in Galveston, Texas, four Latter-day Saint missionaries (Peter A. Norton, Horace L. Johnson, Samuel Shaw, and Heber N. Folkman) were staying in a house belonging to a family named Daniels. As the floodwaters rose, the Daniels family fled, but the Elders remained upstairs and prayed. Despite the extreme destruction surrounding them, the house where the Elders were sheltered was the only one in the entire neighborhood that escaped damage. The Elders were largely unaware of the extent of the disaster during the night, as they were able to sleep despite the storm, and were only confronted with the full scale of the destruction—including many deaths—the next morning.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 62, No. 42, 18 October 1900, page 667):

Elders Peter A. Norton, Horace L. Johnson, Samuel Shaw, and Heber N. Folkman, who are laboring in Galveston, Texas, were in the city during the recent terrible hurricane and flood. They were staying at the home of a family named Daniels. When the storm began to rage, the family fled from the house, but the Elders remained upstairs and engaged in prayer. The house in which they were sheltered was the only one in the neighborhood that escaped damage, and the Elders were not aware of the extent of the disaster until the next morning, when they were confronted with the terrible scene of destruction and death.