The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-11
A STORE COLLAPSES
MANY PERSONS ARE PRECIPI- HATED TO THE GROUND.
The Upper story of The Store Was Used As RooniinE House Ana Occupants Were Asleep
 At The Time.

Birmingham. Jan. I0--(Special)- The outer wall of the two story building. No. 22l3 Second Avenue, oc- cupied on the lower floor by A. B. Vandergrift. general merchan ndise deal CT. and as a rooming house. conducted by Charles Dennies. an Assyrian. on the upper floor, fell out at o'clock This morning. precipitating a dozen and more people who were asleep in the rooms. to lthe ground or on top of the debris.
 The roof fell so that the people were not caught. Dennies and his wife and child were injured but not seriously. Men. women and children went down on the debris and for a while it was feared that there were several badly hurt. An alarm of fire was turned in and several l-ambulapces were called to the scene. A. J. Kr1bs was called into service and collected a large force of men to brace up the building to pre- vent a further collapse and save as much as possible of the s1o.0oo stock of goods on the lower floor.
 The damage will amount to about $2.500 or more. The building was one of the old ones of the city, having been erected twenty-three years ago and put up with brick and mortar made of Gate City sand That there was not a serious fatality list is a mystery.
 corOner Stiu Busy.
 Coroner Brasher before 10 o'clock today. had two more calls to investi- gate killings in the county. and in both instances the victim was a negro and officers of the law had done the killing. Henry Sanders. vicious negro, was shot and fatally wounded last night at Jonesboro, short dis tance from Bessemer. when Officers Spriggs and Tyler went to arrest him. The negro pulled out a big knife and l literally cut the clothing off one of the officers when he was shot down. Sanders died this morning. At Ensley Officers Wren and Boswick went to arrest a negro named Alex Hodges when he offered resistance. The negro Is now dead.
 Indoor Rifle Range.
 Captain Lucien c. Brown has made proposition to the Birminrhan Athletic Club to turn their basement into an indoor rifle range. Captain 6rown has purchased a specially made gun from the Winchester folks fine gun shooting twenty-two oalibre bull lets. and has purchased targets which are based on from 100 to 500 feet tar gets and is making a demonstration or the indoor rifle range. The propo- Sition Is novel one and may be adopt ca Dy the club. Captain Brown is an ardent admirer Of the gun and believes in shooting. 'S'
 stenOgraDhers in Court.
 At has developed that the I,aw and 1rder League of Jefferson County has mad employed stenographers who are working in the courts where iudpes are trying gaming and prohibition cases. During the past week, A fnll stenographic account was made Of the proceedings in the second division of the criminal court. Judge Weaver pre- siding. AS will be remembered one conviction in particular was secured In this court in Michasel Ramsey. who was arrested In a so-called social or reading club on the southside. He was fined $500 and given A sentenca of six months in addition. The state ment Of Judge Weaver in assessing the punishment was taken down by the stenographer in full. Ramsey took an appeal to the fine and sentence.
 Funeral of Little Girl.
 The funeral of Gertie Marcomb the II year old daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. M. Marcomb, of Pratt City. who died from hydrophobia Saturday even ing. took place this afternoon. Inter mont was at Pratt City and a large number of friends of the deceased were at the cemetery. Exactly when and how the child was bitten or received the injury which, caUsed the hydrop- hobia is not known. The parents have many friends and sympathy Is ex- pressed on all sides.
 Lectured on "MephIbOsheth."
 Rev. Frank A. Marston. a Presby- terian minister, delivered an address this afternoon at the Young Mems Christian Association on "Mephibos- heth" before a large audience. Every Sunday afternoon exercises are held in the Y. M. c. A. rooms and the attend ance is growing. There is 6 different speaker every week. MT. Marston is a young man and his address today -.,o. TntarAstiu0 e q well aa iuSnfring