Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-09
hEWS BY lEltGRlPh.
 From All Quarters. ERECRUsHBD 1NDTORN X Tenement Collapsed and
 Killed Many People. BILL TO FIGHT THE TARIFF BILL. Will Deliver His Speech in
 the Senate To-day. POLLARD GAZE MAaIHe 1HE END. The Arguments Will Be
 Opened To-day.
POLLARD GAZE NEAlIxe THE END.
THEIR FLESH WAS TORN.

A Tenement Building In Memphis Collapsed and Several Persons were Killed and Many Ipjured-Scenes Attending the Rescue Were Horr1- ble.
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, April s.-A tenement building at the corner of De Soto and Beall streets collapsed at 7:15 this morning. Four dead bodies and five injured persons who are now at the hospital have been taken out from the debris. There is no doubt that there are more bodies beneath the immense pile of brick, lime, sand and splintered timbers that now cover the place where the building stood, but 1t is safe to cay that no haste that may be made for the recovery of the bodies will avail to save life, for all that were not rescued by noon to-day are now beyond the reach of human aid.
 The collapse wss witnessed by several persons on the outside, and several of those who were on the inside survive to relate what little they know of this, one of the most appalling disasters that ever oc- cured in Memphis. There was @ creaking and cracking, swaying of walls, then the collapse that came with 8 crash. A great cloud of dust foated upon the air, filling the street for block. There was hurry ing forward of police. frsmen and citi- zsns, and then the work of rescue began.
 All the persons taken out are colored. The building was erected thirty four years. It was three and Q half stories of brick. While 1t was all one building 1t was dlvid- ed by thick wall into two compartments. The building had never been condemned as unsafe. It was considered one of the staunchest of the older buildings in the city.
 The scenes attending the rescue were horrifyipg in the extreme. The dead bodies found were all badly crushed, their flesh torn and mutilsted and some of them were almost nude. Half an hour after the collapse occurred the news of it had travelled over the en- tire city and a a crowd gathered at the scene until Besl and DsSoto streets in the vicinity were densely packed. The time for church services came and went and still the crowd remained. AS each corpse was lifted out grosn would go up. The noon hour brought no diminution of the mass of people and the heat of the after noon was unnoticed by the crowd. When darkness set in there was still large gath eripg and boys and men stepped over the ruins to try and find any corpse that the lsborers might have overlooked during the day.
 Men went to word on the debris as soon ss inc collapse took place. First an old negro woman shook the dust from her back, arose from the top of the heap and got away without assistance. Then the form of a woman was lifted out, still alive, and soon the body of man still breathing was pulled out.
 Theee were sent to the hospital. Then came a corpse and so the work proceeded slowly throughout the day.
 The exact number of lives lost will not be known until the debris is cleared away. There were about fifty rooms in the tene- ment, about half of which were occupied. Twenty two people were known to be in the building at the time of the collapse. Of these SIX escaped without serious in- jury, four were taken ont dead and five wounded, and the remainder are missing.