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AEROPLANE DISASTER. HOW ORVILLE WRIGHT AND HIS COMPAION WERE THROWN OUT,

... aiternoon, Lieut. Selfridge . dead, and Mr. Wright is in hospital with a fracture of the left thigh, several of lus ribs on the right eide bent, his head cut, and his body bruised. The dead lieutenant was the nephew of Admiral Selfridge, and was regarded ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Morning Leader
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

j September 18, 1908. Injured in Fall of 75ft. DISASTER TO AEROPLANE. Orville Wright's Machine Collapses in Mid ..

... mid-air, the aeroplane overturned, and Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge, who was his companion on the machine, were precipitated from a height of 75ft. to the ground. Lieutenant Selfridge never regained consciousness, and later in the evening succumbed ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 200 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

• trot over the machine, it did not move smoothly as at the previous tests. At the second round n

... credence. A DISTINGUISHED AERONAUT. The death of Lieutenant Selfridge has deprived aeronautics of one of its most strenuous and distinguished supporters in America. The son of Admiral Selfridge, he entered the Army' and later was attached to the signal ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

II U RKEY'S NEW ERA REFORMERS' PROGRAMME

... internal hurts: :while Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the bend. Both have been remo red to Fort Meyer Hospital. The machine is a wreck. Lieutenant Selfridge a member of the Ages! Corps, sad • son of Admiral Selfridge. The broken propeller was a now ...

LIEUTENANT SUCCUMBS,

... LIEUTENANT SUCCUMBS, NEw YORK, Thursday Night.—Lieutenant . Selfridge, who was injured in the accident to Mr. Orville Wright's aeroplane, died this evening.— Reuter. FLIGHT BY MR. WILBUR WRIGHT, LE MANS, Thursday.—Shortly before half-past six this evening ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOME FURTHER DETAILS

... machine, yesterday afternoon decided , to try the two-man light, called for by the Government tests. He invited Lieutenant Selfridge to accompany him. The latter took his place by Mr. Wright. He weighed 1751 b, which, with Mr. Wright's weight, made the heaviest ...

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AEROPLANE'S FATAL FALL. Orville Wright Seriously Injured in a Trial Trip. PASSENI:EIt KILLED

... he was all right. Beside the broken leg he had a cut over the eye. Lieut. Selfridge, who was only twenty-seven, was a member of the Signal Corps, and a nephew of Admiral Selfridge. The broken propeller was a new one, which Mr. Wright was using for the first ...

Published: Sunday 20 September 1908
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 777 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

POPE'S SACERDOTAL JUBILEE

... disaster to Mr. Orville Wright's aeroplane, in which, as reported in the later editioni of yesterday's Daily Mirror, Lieutenant Selfridge was killed and Mr. Wright severely injured. The latest accounts given by eye-witnesses of the aeroplane's 75ft. plunge to ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LEFT PROPELLER SNAPS

... after the surgical examination dictated a message to his family at Dayton, Ohio, assuring them that he was all right. Mr. Selfridge's injuries are more serious, and he has not yet regained consciousness.—Reuter. ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A TERRIBLE SCENE

... A TERRIBLE SCENE. Lieutenant Selfridge, says Reuter, in a mes• sage to-day, weighed 1751 b., which, with Mr. Wright's weight, made the heavkst burden at. tempted by the aeroplane. The machine rose slowly, and at a height of 40ft. circled round the field ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none