Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-03-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL LEAP FOR LIFE.—OR Monday a fire occurred on the premises of Messrs. William Thompson and James Chamberlain, large and extensive worsted spinners, Frog Island, Leicester. At 5 o'clock in the evening dense volumes of smoke ascend the staircase. The hands in all the upper portion of the building supposed the rooms beneath were on fire. Efforts for escape were immediately made, but the building was four stories high. Some threw themselves out of the windows on to the sheds below, and were more or less bruised. Eliza Wilson, aged 26, was killed, She was in the fourth story, and on the fire being discovered she went to a small window at the north end of the mill, and being stimulated by the cries of the people in the meadow be' low to leap thence into the river beneath that part, she threw herself forward. Her spring was too weak to carry her into the water, which is only about three feet deep, and she fell with her breast on a low wall which divides a small piece of land in an angular form. When takeu up she was insensible, and was immediately removed to the Old Robin Hood Inn, Abbeygate, at which place she died within an hour. In the meantime the tire was discovered to be on the ground floor, in a room in which is kept one of Norton's wool-drying machines, and which is supposed to be the cause of the fire. A hose pipe being kept on the premises, it was attached to one of the hydrants in the yard, and, a plentiful supply of water being obtained, the fire was got under, but not before considerable damage had been done to the yam and machinery by the water thrown upon it. The firm was insured. TRE DSATII OF TUE PRESIDENT'S Son.--Amidst the general joy excited by the successes of the Union cause a black shadow has fallen upon the presidental mansion, and:all who were personally acquainted with as family of the President share in the deep grief OCCI• sioned by the death of little Willie Lincoln. Hs was 11 boy of such promise that all who became acquainted with him had predicted forthim a career of no intimary character. Young as he was, he impressed ever/ one who came in contact with him as a youth who Wig destined to become a man of rank. His premature death has trown into the deepest affliction a father aim could have rejoiced beyond measure to have presell.tc to his sons, as well as the whole world, the sublu spectacle of a Union restored under his Administration, a mother whose greatest happiness was derived fit promoting the welfare of her children. Many atom illustrating his rare intelligence and goodness of. are recited of Willie, whose presence always (hi sunshine in the household of the chief magistrat the nation. The body of Willie Lincoln was embah to-day by Drs. Brown and Alexander, assisted by Wood, in the presence of the attending physicians, I Stone and Hall, Senator Browning, and Isaac Newt The method of Sanget, of Paris, was used, and the re,l was entirely satisfactory to the attendant friends. of family. Thaddeus, the youngest son of the Presides still dangerously ill. Fears are entertained that his ease will assume the type which proved fatal to brutber.—.Nctc nrk Herald.  iblime  iffused.  balm  at  President  11  • SWANSEA AND GLAMORGAN ffEItALD, WEIINPATIAT, MARCIF 1%. is _ --------__-__ . _ ,_ . _ __ - - , _ Vartingentarg itteiligence. Sir C. Wooly Sated that complaints had been made the murderer of Mr. ?rater, at Newcastle, was mod. up a cardinal principle in maritime international law. . , of the insufficiency of the electric telegraph service in In answer to Mr. D. liburrivir, After some further remarks. SWANSEA YALE RAILWAY • . India, and a committee had been appointed to enquire Mr. LAyARD said it was true that the Purser of Mr. iiitimi•ALL withdrew the motion, and the other UP