Numbers of LDS in Exodus - Iowa Daily Register 1/15/49 P2

"The MORMONS. -- The Mormons appeal for assistance.
their distress. Out of about 20,000 souls, 14,000 or 15,000
still linger in the wilderness and a part of Iowa, many
of them without the necessary cloting, provisions,
grocries, medicines, &c. -- They have sent out Rev.
Dana to solicit subscriptions.  He is now in Ohio."