President John Henry Smith's Miraculous Escape from Drowning

During the high water of 1862, John Henry Smith was crossing the Provo river in a small boat with Thomas and George M. Brown when the boat capsized. He became entangled in driftwood and was held under water long enough that bystanders gave him up for dead. Suddenly, he was lifted bodily onto the bank by an unseen power. It was later learned that at that exact moment, his father, George A. Smith, had been impressed with the danger his son was in and was fervently praying for his life.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University):

On a June day in 1862, apostle George A. Smith, who was in Salt Lake City, received the distinct impression that his thirteen-year-old son, John, was in grave danger. Immediately the worried father prayed to the Lord and pled with him to save the boy. At that moment, forty miles to the south, his son’s two companions, Thomas and George Brown, stood horrified on the banks of the flood-swollen Provo River, looking at a driftwood entanglement under which John Smith was trapped and drowning. All at once an unseen power lifted the boy from the waters and placed him safely on the bank.