New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-10-26
Fearful Accident the Detroit nBd aIzI-
syaukee Railway.
THREE MEN KILLED AND Two TRAINS wRRcKKn.

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From tbs Detroi. Advertiser Of the 28tIl
Yesterday morning, at about nine o'clock, sliE
freight train going east and the passenger tSnIzy
going west, of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway.
celiided on curve mile and a halt west Of BsF-
mngham and some twenty from Detroit, killing
Dexter NJ. G. Nichols, express messenger, Geo NJ
Snes mail agent of the passenger train, and Alex
ander Wilke, fireman of the freight train. George
Spencer, engineer oil the freight train, had an
broken. No Others received injuries werfhy c&
mention. Two baggage cars, two platform, ARA
FIVE box freight cars, with locomotives, were
wrecked.
The particulars OF the accident, as gathered
upon the spot and from the narratives OF pers0gsn
present, are briefly these:
The passenger train left here twenty inmates oe-
hind time yesterday morning, and at Royal Oak
the conductor, j. j. Briscoe, received orders by
telegraph to wait the eastward going freight traazs
at Birmingham. At the latter place he found thes
Fentonyle train and eonyersed with the condnetofv
Mr.. Bunker. Here originated the cause of the ds-
! aster. Mr.. Briscoe made the singular and unae-
countabe mistake of supposing the hentonyiiie p
4 be the freight train. Dir. Bunker had lately BEEN
| conductor of the freight, and Mr.. Briscoe made ne
! inquiry, and without thought acted On the suppO-
sition that he, Bunker was there, his Bsnal trans
was also and started his train. When on the
curve, and scarce two cars length distant, as ene
1 engineer says, the engineers of the respective
/ trains first saw each other. They whstled down
the brakes and jumped. Mr. Spencer, of the freight
| escaped with a broken arm. His fireman, Mr-
Wilkie who was stokng at the time, did not jump
probably not having time and WAS found dead %
tbe ruins and as near as possible to the place a.
VIII ich he must have been standing at the monena'
of the collision. Mr.. Bell of the passenger tSainr
and his fireman, both landed uniiarmed.
The forward baggage car was divided into threeT
compartments, in the forward one Of which was
Mr.. Nichols, express messenger, in the middle MI
Sines the mail agent and in the Mr. Wiilisfa
Briscoe, baggage agent. The car was wrecked,
and two Of its inmates killed. Mr. Briscoe escaping
unhurt, save a few bruises to his arm and one
knee.
:, Mr Sines was found dead, after considerable
labor, buried in the bank and amid the ruins OF the
: freight cars. His ribs had been forced up as by
!, strong lateral pressure. There can be no doubt
but that he jumped though either too late or NJ
the wrong place.
s Mr. Nichols was found under the safe, the uppe1
part of his head crushed in He was heard by htr.
Briscoe to groan for some minutes after the coils
, ion, but was dead when extricated which, we an
derstand, was half or three-quarters Of an hota
afterward.
Both trains were running at great speed, bofl
being behind time. The passenger train, We arr
informed running at the rate OF forty miles az
hour. The freight train consisted of some twelve
cars laden wholly chiefly with beef in barrels
and the passenger train Of two baggage and thref
passenger cars. The singuar ;cape OF the fatsez
is accounted for BY the fact that the forward onE
broke loose, and it heing down grade towards
Birmingham, they ran back. No one in them WAS
injured to any extent worthy Of mention
PARRIeIDE IN FRANCE.-A dreadful murder vas
committed some time since at Senailly, near Dion
by young woman named Lucie Migniot, on ths
person of her father. 1t appears from the COMES
sion of the murderess, who is barely twenty years
of age, that she and her father had qnarreled on
the previous night, respecting her projected mar
riage with man of whom her father alt0gethsl
! disapproyed Irritated by this opposition 10 hel
! wishes, she came to the desperate resolution d
| numbering her father, and accordingly, haying
waited till her father was in bed and fast asleep
: she took chopper and struck him repeatedly on
8 the head; then, suddenly reenting, she drew hel
victim out OF bed to the top of the stairs, AZ
open window, but finding no signs Of life, she re
moved the body back again to the bed and scream
ed for help. When the neighbors came she no
l. knowledged her guilt and was taken into custody
On the following day she tried to elude the Yigi
|, lance of the gen d'arme who had her in charge
= :, and threw herself into well. She was, however
got out almost unhurt, and afterwards lodged il
the prison of Semur.