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AEROPUNE DISASTER. UEUTENANT SELFRIDGE DULLED

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Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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 ...

THE AIRSHIP DISASTER

... AIRSHIP DISASTER. HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. Lieutenant Selfridge’s Death. MR. WRIQHT SERIOUSLY INJURED. Washington, Friday. A mechanical expert, describing the aeroplane accident, which Lieutenant Selfridge was killed and Mr. Orville Wright injured, said the ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

severely injured. Tho hind wheels the vehicle were wrecked and the axle bent. In reply to inquiries mode last night

... patient© are making favourable progress. WRIGHT AEROPLANE RECKED A LIEUTENANT KILLED. While Mr. Orville Wright ami Lieutenant Selfridge were proceeding on a flight in the former.' aeroplane at Fort Meyer, U.S.A., Thursday afternoon they met with disastrous ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AERONAUT FATALLY INJURED

... occupants were thrown out. Mr. Wright was injured on the arm and hip, and is feared sustained internal injunee. Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the head. Both were removed to hospital. The machine wreck. lb stated the hospital that Mr. Orville Wright’s ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AERONAUT SERIOUSLY INJURED AND A LIEUTENANT RILLED

... of the left propeller snapped, owing probably to the strain, imposed upon with two persons (Mr. Wright and Liei*- tenant Selfridge) in the machine, and the right propeller, continuing to work, caused the aeroplane to turn on one side when 75 feet in the ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ARMY AUTHORITIES AND THE

... ARMY AUTHORITIES AND THE ACCIQENT. [From our Correspondent] York, Friday. The uews of the death of Lieutenant Selfridge following, the fracture of the ba«e of the skull ha*, pot been told to Mr. Wright at present. The latter told the doctors this afternoon ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE AIRSHIP SMASH. How the Accident Occurred

... stated that the accident would not cause the Government to alter its present agreement with the Wright Brothers. Lieutenant Selfridge was aged 26, and was a native of San Francisco. He was in the sth Artillery and a member of the Army Aeronautical Board. ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 8 | Tags: none