Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-03-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE FOXHOLE WHARF.—An inquest was he.cl on Monday, at the Copperman's Arms, rentreguinea, before Mr. C. Collins, coroner, on the body of a man named John Clement, aged 51, who met with his death on board the steam tug 4Trimden Grange,' belonging to Mr. C. H. Sinith.—llenry James, master of the fug, stated that on the 9th inst. the tug was lying at the Foxhole wharf, and had been lying alongside the wharf about ten minutes when witness went on shore, leaving Snow the engineer, the deceased, the mate, and a boy on board. lie hail not been on shore more than ten minutes when be saw something had happened on board the tug by a quantity of steam escaping; he returned on board and saw the engineer and the deceased come on deck, both of them very much scalded : he understood that they had endeavoured to stop a leak in one of the tubes of the boiler, and in doing soan escape of steam took place and injured the man. Witness was not aware that there was anything the matter with the boiler; the boiler had not been repaired since witness had been master of the tug; the boiler was not under witness's care. The engineer had not reported to witness that the boiler was out of repair. It was inspected two m intbs ago. Witness was of opinion that the engineer ought to have blown ie steam off before he did anything, but sometimes such repairs were done without blowing the steam off.—This being the only evidence at present, it was s.rranged that the inquiry should be adjourned till to-morrow to enable the boiler to be examined, and Snow, the engineeer, who was still unwell, to attend. bc WILE AT NANTrowIN.—An inquest was held before Mr. C. Collins, coroner, yesterday (Tuesday) at the house of Elizabeth Jones, Nantygwin, Llangatelach, on the be iy of William .1 age.l 51. Elizabeth Jones, widow of the deceased, stated that herself and her husband got up on Sunday morning as early as five o'clock in consequence of her having to go to Morriston to see her daugnter. Her husband left the house to go to the barn to get the horse ready; after he bad been gone about half an hour, witness went to the barn and saw him hanging to one of the beams. Witness found he was quite dead, and untied the rope and went to his brother's, close by to for as,i-itance. Deceased's mother had hung herself in the same house, and one of his uncles had committed suicide.—Henry Jones, brother to the deceased, proved finding the body, and the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." WRECK PICKED ne.—The steam tug Talbot ' fell in, on Wednesday last, with the wreck of a large brig, keel up, off Oxwich bay; she at once proceeded to tow the wreck into Swansea bay, and having obtained the assistance of two other tugs, they managed to get the wreck on to the sands within a short distance of the mouth of the harbour on Sunday. It was at first thought that the vessel was loaded and that the captors had got hold of a very rich prize, but although they have been yet unable to ascertain anything about her, there seems to be but little doubt that she is the unfortunate Russian vessel which was blown up in the chaanel on the 10th inst., and that there is consaquently nothing more than a niere shell. The opportunity of a high tide is now wanted to bring her over the bar. Meantime several men were employed in getting her gear away. The wreck has been the subject of much speculation and curiosity during the week.  I ones,  AN INQUEST was held by Mr. Charles Collins on Wednesday, on the bodies of the two men, named Benjamin Smith and James Mack, of the 'Victoria,' who were found drowned the previous day in the New Cut, as reported in our last. Captain Leity deposed that his vessel was ling at the Birchgrove Colliery wharf, New Cut, ou uesday evening last, where she was taking in her cargo of coals. He had paid the deceased their wages that afternoon, but did not see them after eight o'clock in the evening. The next day they were drowned. Captain Leity added: "Monday night was very dark, and Swansea Harbour is yely unprotected—more so than I ever knew any harbour to be in my life before."—Daniel Jenkins a fellow seaman, deposed to seeing the deceased in the Puke of Wellington, St. Mary-street. They all left together about halfpast 11, and he went as far as the bottom of Wind-street with the deceased. They were then both quite sober. They wished him good night and said they were going to the vessel.—John Adams, a labourer, of St. Thomas, deposed to having seen two sailors sitting on the New Cut about half-past one o'clock. They had their arms round each other's necks, and appeared very drunk. They said they wanted to go on board their ve'sel, and witness said he would take them if they would point the vessel out. Thd deceased did not do so, and he left them on the bridge.—P.C. Lewis said about one o'cbck in the morning he saw two seamelc pass by the toll house of the lock-bridge. They were both drunk, but being quiet he did not interfere with them. About three-quarters of an hour after this he went to the end 3f the bridge of the New Cut, where he found a mall lying down with his head on one side, and he was very drunk. It was the deceased man Smith. Ile was taken into the gate-house and he • Lewis) fetched the stretcher from the police station. P. C. Wilson accompanied him back. The deceased then said he would walk to the police station, which he did.