Near-drowning of a young boy in a stream

During summer bathing, the father attempted to throw his young son to an uncle in a running stream. The uncle missed the grasp, and the boy was pinned underwater by a pointed willow branch until life had nearly escaped him.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 40, No. 18 (6 May 1878), p. 284):

A little boy, the son of a brother in the Church, was playing in a stream of water, and his father, in sport, attempted to throw him to his uncle, who was standing on the opposite side. The uncle missed his hold, and the child fell into the water, and was pinned to the bottom by a sharp-pointed willow branch, which had run through his clothes. He remained there until life had nearly departed, when he was taken out, and by the power of God, through the administration of the Elders, he was restored to health.