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Show 128 During this time, the Fillmore and Beaver companies overtook them.32 They also had a rough time of it, being cought on Soap Wash with no shelter. The tempest hit them with such severity that "many were fearful of loosing their lives. "33 It was then that Orange Warner, the captain of the Fillmore company, proved his worth. By his strength of character and his courageous efforts he was able to maintain order in the hapless camp. According to one Millard County man: He rustled the wood, made fires & got them warmed up & to bed, then went in quest of the cattle that were drivin by the storm wind & slete of snow & when he could no longer keep the cattle from going a stray with the storm he tried to get back to camp but the darkness & storm prevented & he had to keep warm as best he could, holding to his horse all night, whiping stomping beating, anything to keep up the heat of the body but morning came at last. ..had he not been a strong courageous man he would never have ben able to wethered it through.34 Orange Warner, like a number of other expedition leaders was an upstate New York man. He was in his early fifties at the time he was called to the White Mountain Expedition. Warner had been an original pioneer of Fillmore in I85I. He was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and was an Indian war veteran. The Fillmore company was composed of about sixteen men and boys.35 One of the explorers was Warner's young son Mortimer, who was so eager to go on the expedition, he ran away from home and overtook the company. The first to link up with the main group was the Beaver company. This company was commanded by a thirty-year old Scottish immigrant by the name of James Low.J Low was a lieutenant in the Beaver company of the Legion. His company consisted of "17 men provided with 6 wagons; 30 animals (horses and mules) a plough to each wagon, 2 bushels seeds-wheat; | bushel of potatoes, |
