The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
ALL NEED HEALING.
A Train Load of InvaiIds Go From OmHha
to Denver to See schlattrr.

A Train Load OF lnvaiiar eo FROM O
to Denver to See schlatt@r.
Denver. Nov. 11.-It is seldom that
passenger trains unload such carso
as did the Union Pacific when arENeu
In Denver at 7:3o last night from
Cheyenne and Wyoming, says uie NJ
publican. The train was well hiieu, II
nearly 200 sick folks can make any
thing well. This is the last week III
which Francis Schlatter. the coopler
"healer." is to do any work in Denver,
There is a case pending in the Iuiteu
States courts which will hold him mere
as n witness, and postponeineht IN sne
hearing may oblige him 10 rei,ali r
longer than he had originally ih'enueu,
In fact. they have already aecoihpiisnu
this. hut postponementS or no postpone
menis Friday next Will be his last up
nearance. In anticipation of all TINS 'iie
Union Pacific Railroad company "eeh
ago announced to sick employees aiohs
It's Omaha line as well as their WITS
or children. that free transportation
would be accorded TO Denver anu
turn by the train To leave oihaha VI
Saturday. One hundred ana t"f's Po
ple in Omaha took advantage VI ~
offer, while there was scarcels 20 t,.
along the route that did not supply lts
quota until ia persons We're en- ~ -,
10 Denver. hopeful. If not prayerlui'
that Schlatter might anoru 'neii'
aid In their troubles.
The presence OF the exraordinars
CROWD on the. depot platform caused -'a nn
idents of Denver might be inclined 10
ridicule Schlatter and his methods.
there was no ridiculing the poor souls
who came in on that Union Pacific
train They We're of all sorts and con-
ditions. Clutches were everywhere,
paralyZed arms hung helplessly down
ward, bandages were common. Nor
were all men. nor nearly all. There
were wives and children of Union Pa
cific railroad employees. These We're
saddening to see, no matter how llttIe
Ill they We're. 1t was enough for the
crowd Of spectators who We're about
the place that trouble had forced them
to endure the journey of 600 miles from
their homes, to undergo that long and
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 incon'
veniences which will be theirs during
Some were almost too i'll to travel
One man suffering from fits had half n
dozen on the train coming out. There
We're 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 he 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 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 n 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 Inn
penetrable to him. A woman was on
the train who bore with her little
Lar- l--.- -.ss-sl-- of mimi 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, Ike 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 ,uytbipp