These events had been foretold. Although there were certainly many who wished that they had repented before these events, there were certainly righteous people who were also affected by the destructions. The case of Bountiful will be discussed later, but there were certainly other righteous people in other locations. Natural disasters cannot pinpoint their effects and hurt only the wicked.
This is not the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.