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AEROPLANE DISASTER IN AMERICA

... injuries, while Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the haad. Both hard, been removed to Fort Mjrer Hospital. The machine is a wreck. Lieutenant Selfridge is a member of the' Signal Corps, and a son of Admiral Selfridge. The broken propeller was a ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 418 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KR. WRIGHT'S CONDITION

... said he would break the nine minutes' record easily. Before be went up Lieutenant Selfridge was congratulated on his good luck by dosens of persons. Lieutenant Selfridge, said a reporter, 'I want you to remember when you are up there in the air tb_at ...

CONQUEST OF THE AUL ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT

... CONQUEST OF THE ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT. LONDON, Sept. 18. A telegram from Washing:on states that °trine Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge were making a trip in the Wright aeroplane when the blade of one of the propellers broke under the strain of two passengers ...

CREW THROWN TO EARTH

... over the left eye. He is conscious, and dictated a message to his family. Death of Lieutenant Selfridge. New York, Thursday, 8.30 p.m. Lieutenant Selfridge, who was injured in the accident to Mr. Orville Wright’s aeroplane, died this evening. Aeroplane ...

AEROPLANE ftll TO THE GROUND

... tragical mis• hap while making a two-man flight. The aeroplanist was accompanied by Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, of the signal corps of the army. Lieut. Selfridge was fatally injured and died at 8.10 o'clock last nigrit. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Ottawa Free Press
County: Ontario, Canada
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CRUSHED BY AEROPLANE

... CRUSHED BY AEROPLANE Lieut.-Dent Selfridge. who stn killed in the accident to Mr. Omlle Wright's mereplane, at Fort Meyer, on Monday in a nephew of Admiral Selfridge. and was regarded as one of the moot expert airaturs in the United States. Ile was invited ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AVIATOR KILLED

... dictated a message to his family. Death of Lieut. Selfridge New York, Thursday, 8.30 p.m. Lieut. Selfridge, who wa* injured in the accident to Mr. Wright's aeroplane, died this evening. Lieut. Selfridge was one the most expert aviators in the United States ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AN EXPERT'S ACCOUNT

... September 17. A mechanical expert, describing the aeroplane accident, in which Mr. Orville Wright was injured and Lieut. Selfridge was killed, said that the machine perfomed beautifully for six or seven minutes, and then suddenly one of the propellers ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DISASTER FULLY DESCRIBED

... Friday.—As a result of the 75ft. plunge of Mr. Orville Wright's aeroplane at Fort Meyer yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Selfridge is dead, and Mr. Wright is in hospital with a fracture of the left thigh, several of his ribs on the right side bent, his ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 193 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Falls to Earth. A LIEUTENANT FATALLY INJURED

... Meyer, yesterday, Mr. °Mlle Wright and Lieut. Selfridge ascended in the former 's seroplsoe. During the aeroplane's flight one of tw ith rworellore asappri ng and the machineto ,fatally inju ed, Lieut. Selfridge B and severely injuring Mr. Wright. WASHINGTON ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 588 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

News from Abroad

... 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