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... News from Abroad. Mr. Orville Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge were badly injured during a flight of Mr. Wight’s aeroplane at Fort Meyer late yesterday afternoon. Lieutenant Selfridge died later in the day. The Cardiff steamer Rosella struck some submerged ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. ORVILLE WRIGHT FALLS

... the accident wou 4 Government to alter its present agreem ent with tre Wright brothers. Lieutenant Selfridge was aged 26, the nephew of Admiral Selfridge, and a native 1 in the 5th Artillery, and of San Francieco. He was a member of the Army Aeronautical ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHETTFTELD DAILY TELEGEAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ” 18, 1908

... that he and Lieutenant Selfridge, whom he had taken up in his aeroplane as a passenger, are badly injured. The day was favourable for ascent, and after making a flight this morning, Mr. Wright proposed that Lieutenant Selfridge should accompany him this ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DISASTER TO MR ORVILLEWRIGHT'S AEROPLANE

... followed by a terrible disaster. Yesterday Mr Wright made an ascent, sooompaniod by Lieut. Selfridge, of the United States Signal Corps, a son of Admiral Selfridge. is the air, at a height of 75 feet, the mechanism went wrong, both the occupants were thrown ...

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR ORVILLE WRIGHT

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR ORVILLE WRIGHT. WASHINGTON, September 17. Mr Orville Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge wero badly injured during a flight of Mr Wright's aeroplane at Fort Mjer late this afternoon.—Router. ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 31 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ORVILLE MURAT AEROPLANE =CIO

... PASSENCEN ILIUM. AERONAUT INJURED. A Press agency's correspondent et New York seta that Mr. Orville Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge sure badly injured during a light of Mr. Wright's aeroplane at Fort Meyer late on Thursday afternoon. The blade of one of ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 465 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHUTS HIMSELF UP ALONE IN THE AERO-

... by the thought that the machine built by ally affec his brother and himself as caused the death of Lieu- Monday. tenant Selfridge. He is not likely to fly again before ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, SKPTEM DER INVASION OF ENGLAND. Crushing Blow Inflicted oo Britishers TO-DAY'S SPORTING. ..

... two menthe. Mr Wright ways correspondent of the ia quite cheerful, and light of his injurte.. He is not that Lasoteuaut Selfridge dead. A examination has been made of be aeroplane, but the army have made it are unable to say what the weak point earn Mr ...

THE INVENTOR'S ILL T.UCK

... correspondent). wes the fracture of part of one of the propellers while the machine was in the air. Mr. Wright, with Lioutenat Selfridge, of the United States army, as a passenger, had already encircled the parade ground of Fort Myer several times. Suddenly ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPRIOUS ACCIDENT TO 3.111. ORVILLE

... SPRIOUS ACCIDENT TO ORVILLE WRIGHT. New York. Thursday. .Mr. Orville Wright and Lieut. Selfridge were injuned this afternoon during a flight of Mr. Wright's aeroplane. The aeroplane trrned on its wide when 75 feet in the air, and both necupante were thrown ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Bradford Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

KAISER ON CONQUEST AND SACRIFICE,

... plans must again be put to the test at the risk of their lives. The Emperor added that he regretted the death of Lieut. Selfridge, an officer engaged in the perfection of the military weapons his Fatherland just as he understood the grief of the tireless ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1908
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE AEROPLANE DISASTER IN AMERICA

... the dirigible airship which recently sold to the War Department. The suggestion is being taken erecting monument to Lieut. Selfridge, spot where the disaster occurred on the parade ground at Fort Myer.—Copyright. ...