The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-15
AN ECHO OF THE
 TRUCKEE SMASH-UP.
MANY WILL RECALL THIS SAD AF- FAIR WHICH HAPPENED IN 1892.
MT. III Watkins, of this City, Who was Injured in the Wreck Tells of His Terrible Sufferings and Final
 Cure

MT. H Watkins, of this City, Who was Injured in the Wreck Tells of His Terrible Sulferings and Final Cure.
 From the Examiner, San Francisco, Cdl
 Mir. H. Watkins lives at 2OOS Geary Street, San Francisco. He is a rail- way postal clerk, and has been in that business for years. When seen at his home he gladly told his experience
 with Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
 Pale People. He narrates the facts
 leading up to his trying them, the benefits he has enjoyed by their use and the results of recommending them to others
 He said: "I have suffered from rheumatism for years. At times have been so bad that I could not raise my arms over my head. No one had worse rheumatism than I. I got it first in the Truckee smash-up. I was laid on the snow in the wreck and then taken to the railroad hospital. Ever since then I have suffered at times terribly, that is to say, up till a year ago. Once at Redlands, ill San Brenardino county, thought I should die, and at Promontory I was so crippled that I had to be carried to the mail car. No one who has not had it can understand the agony. I was not able to get out of bed at times. l had to crawl on hands and knees from I,0 11nI %a %hn 1-it
 Occasionally when I tried to rise in the morning the pains would seize me and had to be caught to prevent my falling. l tried every kind of medicine. The only thing that helped me at all up to year ago was some fearful stuff an old Mormon gave me when was taken down in Utah. It was horrible stuff to take and only eased me for short time
 About year ago went into the No Percentage Pharmacy on Market Street. While I was there an old man named Cowen of Vallejo Junction, came in. He told me he was going to get Pink Pills for his rheumatism. I told him if they could do him good they might help me too. He had been up to Byron Springs and was nearly doubled up with rheumatism. The doctors told him just as they had told me, that medicine would do him no good. We'll, I didn't give up. am young man and you would not expect me to give myself up as a hopeless rheumatic at my age. I was ready to try anything. bought two or three boxes of the pills and began to take them. The way ill which they took hold of me was simply wonderful. I did not take many of the pills either, and, of course, I am careful not to expose myself. I have never been lame since and have never lost a nights sleep from rheumatism. I recom- mended the pills to my friends and I have yet to hear from the first one who has not been benefited. AS for myself, I would gladly make affidavit to the good they have done me, in fact l am only too happy to do so for I cannot say too much for the benefit have re- ceived.
 "Going through Vallejo Junction on my train one day I saw the old gentleman, Mr. Cowen, and l called out to him 'how are the Pink Pills. He replied, they're fine.'
 ''I was down in Los Angeles and called upon a postal clerk, friend of mine. He told me that his wife was great sufferer from rheumatism. told her to try the Pink Pills, and now there is no one in Los Angeles who thinks more of the pills than Mrs. Carr, that is her name. don't think she had rheuma tism quite so badly as I, but she was just as anxious to get rid of it, and she is just as grateful to be we'll again.
 ''I always keep a box of the pills handy just in case should need them, though my wife will tell you how rare- ly I use them now"
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain, in condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv- ous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents box or six boxes for S2. 50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Will liams' Medicine Company, Schenec- tady, N. Y.