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Universal regret will felt at the disaster that has overtaken Mr. Orville Wright. His passenger, Lieutenant ..

... Universal regret will felt at the disaster that has overtaken Mr. Orville Wright. His passenger, Lieutenant Selfridge, of the United States Army Corps, has succumbed to the injuries received from the fall, but Mr. Wright himself has fortunately escaped ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MORNING EXPRESS COURIER OFFICE, FRIDAY, 6 A.M. [BY PRIVATE WIRES.] AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. DEATH OF LIEUT. ..

... OFFICE, FRIDAY, 6 A.M. [BY PRIVATE WIRES.] AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. DEATH OF LIEUT. SELFRIDGE. MR- WRIGHT'S INJURIES. [Reuters Telegrams.] New York, Thursday, 830 P.M. Lieutenant Selfridge, who was injured in the accident to Orville Wright's aeroplane, died this ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AEROPLANE OVERTURNS

... internal injuries, while Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the head. Both have been removed to Fort Meyer Hospital. The machine is a wTeck. Lieut. Selfridge ie a member of the Signal Corps and a son of Admiral Selfridge. The broken propeller was a new ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WRECKED AEROPLANE

... machine during the afternoon, had decided try the two-man flight called for by the Government tests. He invited Lieutenant Selfridge to accompany him. and the Lieutenant took his place by Mr. Wright. He weighed 175 pounds, which, with Mr. Wright's weight ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NECKED AEROPLANE

... plunged down front a height of 75 feet, injuring Mr. Wright and killing his companion, Lieut.• Selfridge, of the United States Signal Corps, a son of Admiral Selfridge. The accident took place when the aeroplane was making its fourth circle of the field. The ...

Published: Sunday 20 September 1908
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1187 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WRIGHT AEROPLANE ACCIDENT

... suitability their plans lives agam put to the test at tbefrisk of their The Emperor added that regretted ihe death Lieutenant Selfridge just as understood the grief the tireless inventor, Mr. Orville \vright, at the destruction of his aeroplane. French Aeroplane ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... The wreck of Mr. Orville Wright's aeroplane at Fort Myers, United Staten, on Thursday, involved the death of Lieutenant Selfridge, but Mr. Wright escaped with a broken leg. The accident was caused by the breaking of one of the propellers, and the aeroplane ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Sporting Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... machine darted downwards earth many of the Mr Wright endeared everyone by pluck kindly OF Reuter’s York that Lieutenant Selfridge died evening injured head It stated at Fort Myer hospital that Mr Orville Wright’s of one the a over the eye- He is conscious ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3927 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 1908 THE WEATHER MILD FORECAST TILL 11 AM TO-MORROW DISTRICT ..

... movement Aeroplane The of man’s ambitions efforts to riddle of aerial navigation yesterday accident befel inventor Mr Orville Selfridge of the States Signal greatest apparent ease the mechanism machine and his companion were to the earth eight 75 feet Lieutenant ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3379 | Page: 3 | Tags: none