Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-11-14
ALL NEED HEALING.
A Train Load Of Invalids Go From Omaha
to Denver to See Schlatter.


Denver, Nov. lit is seldom that
as did the Union Pacific which arrived
In Denver at 7:3O last night from
Cheyenne and Wyoming, says the Re
publican. The train was well filled, II
nearly 200 sick folks can make any
thing we'll This is the last week IN
which Francis Schlatter, the cobbler
"healer," is to do any work in Denver.
There Is a case pending In the United
States courts which will hold him here
as a witness, and postponement in the
hearing may oblige him to remain
longer than he had originally Intended:
In fact, they have already accomplished
this, but postponements or no postpone
ments, Friday next will be his last ap-
pearance. In anticipation Of all this the
Union Pacific Railroad company week
ago announced to sick employees along
Its Omaha line, as well as their wives
or children, that free transportation
would be accorded to Denver and re-
turn by the train to leave Omaha on
Saturday. One hundred and forty peo-
pie in Omaha took advantage OF the
offer, while there was scarcely station
along the route that did not supply It's
quota until 174 persons were en- route
to Denver, hopeful, If not prayerful,
that Schlatter might afford them some
aid in their troubles.
The presence of the extraordinary
crowd on the depot platform caused an
unusual sensation. However much res
idents Of Denver might be inclined to
ridicule Schlatter and his methods,
there was no ridiculing the poor souls
who came in on that Union Paclnc
train. They were of all sorts and con-
ditions. Clutches were everywhere,
1,,,rr hn1v,lnsSIv n
ward, bandages were common. NOR
were all men, nor nearly all. There
were wives and children Of Union Pa
cific railroad employees. These were
saddening to see, no matter how little
Ill they were. 1t was enough for the
crowd of spectators who were about
the place that trouble had forced them
to endure the journey of 600 miles from
their homes, to undergo that long ana
painful wait which all realized they
must make in front Of the place where
Schlatter holds forth, to stand out IN
the cold breezes which, however pleas
ant to the pedestrian, are piercing to
those who stand still, and to contend
with the thousand and one other inconA
veniences which will be theirs during
the week.
Some were almost too Ill to travel.
One man suffering from fits had half
dozen on the train coming out. There
were three blind men. Another man
who suffered from fits was named Her
man, of the Omaha car shops. He used
to have eight and ten a day, but
month ago visited Schlatter. Since that
time be claimed to his fellow passen-
gers to have had but two. He came
back on a pass to get rid even of the
chance of having two fits a month.
Stein of Grand Island, the blind man,
who had been treated by Schlatter be-
fore, too was on the train. He says
he can distinguish daylight from dark,
discern shadow upon the ground and
tell black from white, whereas before
he met Schlatter the paralysis Of the
optic nerve in his eyes made all i'm
penetrable to him. A woman was on
the train who bore with her little
boy, born weak of mind and once treat
ed by Schlatter.
She told another poor woman from
Omaha who had with her weak-mind-
ed little girl, that Schlatter had made
her child much better, and, like the
wind, the stories of Stein, the man with
the fits and the woman with the weak
minded child, had gone up and down
that train until there was faith enough
In some of the unfortunates to do al
most anything.