Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-09-22

3oops.--On the l4lh inst, on ncoihehl occurred
on The railfoad between Chicago aud st. Louis,
by which near 10000 worth Of goods was nlu.
ted. ItopPears that two trains, one passenger
and the other a heavy flight tain, met Cewmies
from Joliet. Therreight train was therefore COM
PEELED to return 10 that Place, the other following
close in it, wake. Half milf from Joliet is ii
nosseled worked bridge, and while the trains
were going over This fridge, OIL Of which were
heavily laden, freight corlumped the rail-, and
its fall broke away considerable portion Of the
bridge, and IN quick succession seven other cars
piled rene after another, and the whole eight
@entdo@n in the rlSei together A 81 Louis
paper says: iVl.I rUtYfF ID
Had the river teen d6ep enough, OF The height
Of the bridge sufficient, every cat in OOlh Trans
- oud have shar,d The sinlehlutel bdlioTlnnalely
The hegn Of tie bridge aud The depl OF we hVe'
only permitted the eight TO pile ~ one upon un'
OF her aud the cars following were brought a'ahu'
ing agdihsl (hewf OF those lhdt Tad iallell'-
| The sudden sloppuge, bOWtveb CAUSED COILS
ion betwten the Two trains, AMI one OF more OF Tue
kl0comotiyes suffered severely aud several cats
were more or less damaged. fortunately no per
lsonal injury was sustained. Ihe waller IN TIE
| river was not very deep, but the Packages con-
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shoes. teas, dry goods, hats, eweiry, SILKS hlank'
els, wines, oils, &c., were m on dIsIln6ushaOle
mass 6esidts'a large quantity lad escaped ron
The Lroken cars, and were eItler floating about M
the water, OF had gone TO the bottom,
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| FIRE IN BRooKLyS-A WOMAN DESTROYED IN
raE PLAMLs.--on Sunday night last fire broke
out in two.sloiy frame houss on the corner Of La
Payelle.ov. and scbenok,sI,i aud soou spread &c
an adl,ining building, bothowncd by Stephen O.
Jackson, aud thence to tenement owned by Vic
tory Miller. Each buiIdiugwas occupied 10y sew
eral f,milies, who LOST all they had. One womOu
named Ellen Flanagan lost her life in Tie flames
and it wOs with tue greatest difficulty that some o.
the others escaped q similar (oly, MIS-, Plaua'
lOn's msbtndwas awakened by d dense smoke ID
The room aud Sc glrg one or Tie olildren, ran oul
With il, the flames having already enSel0ped The
slOirway The woman took the other child aud
! lett ont Of Tie windnS, aud then lTed TO save
HERSELF but being unable to make itr way THO
the dense oke and heat, became bewildered
tanl fell ayiclim 10 the destroying element The
buildings were burned 10 tbs grou9d. blr. Jack
sons loss am uns 10 hbonts L5OOi rot Insured
The los sustained by Ma. Miller amounts 20 about
$780, insured TOT $3.50 in the Granite Company
New York. od'opptoaohiug lteScgneof The 6re
Engue No. 2 came mo accidental collision with
NO97, and three Hnmenwere seriously injured
Their names are Thomas Hicks, Edward Fogarll
and WIN. Carroll. EGl1AEEE
Backs JAlL.--Oharles Jones 6ad O. Darts
arrested f,r stealing $500 from the United
States Hotel, Henry Lord Sterling, for steal
ing hOrseudd buggy,apd John Cunningham, ro
IIoJblnsa iewelty Store, in Mason Warren coun
Fly, escaped from the Jail at Columbus on ruesdO,
might, They succeeded in digging llrongh Iii,
three intervening walls Of the cells in which the,
were confQed, and in getting into the hall tina
IsepaIales Tie cells from The outside walls. BE-,
wps thrown upon the floor to prevent noise, on,
willlt the Ill Of obissl they cut through tile out
side wall twelve inches thcA, aud landed into tb,
street. The journal says there is evidence to show
tuat help was furnished them from The outside
cunninl ham was lelteted witt heavy IRONS. which
The mnnaged 10 cut ANA leave behind, except III,
rings whiclrare YET uPon bis ANGLE.
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~ The we'll known preacher Of New Orleans
Theodore ClaPP WHO Is rhstcalhg at The North
lwhtrs TO the Picayune n highly enloailtio lelto
leoncerliug Henry wofd BreCher. He conclude
thus. WI
Must moi admire this great, original, wonder
full man, simply because he is caSsed with tn
hbnlliOnlsisi AbOlillonism IN the mind Of Mr.
lis nothing but beautiful dream--a vision o
notal loyelness, enraplurlng % behold. Itls miNet
with no element Of haIshness OF IN santhIopy. tl
nlOes. not judge rightly about the destruction o
tlavety. because utterly ignUrint Of the Difficult
lies which the case involves. THIS remark IS OPP
plicable To oil the good Abolioasls OF the North
They ATE not aware that Southern negroes can II,
more lie made fellow citizens than pine trees cdI
beIuIned into sugar mnpes. laat
TnR GREIr NAvizs OF the woRLo.--we fn,