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DEATH OF LIEUT SELFRIDGE

... DEATH OF LIEUT SELFRIDGE MR. WRIGHT'S asinngt.oe . Pndwv . As tie remit of the 75 feet plunge of Kr. Orertle Wright's seroptune at Fort Meyer. yesterday after comae, Lieut. Selfridge is deed, end lir Wright, is i n with • fracture the left thigh, titters ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Post
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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

AIRSHIP DISASTER

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

WRIGHT AEROPLANE WRECKED, AERONAUT FATALLY INJURED

... injured on the arm and hip, and it is feared eus'ained ioternal injuries Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the head. Th were removed to hospital. where Lieutenant Selfridge died in the evening. Mr. Orville Wright's injuries animist of a fractured leg below ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 3 | 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 ...

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

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

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

GHAM GAZETTE AND EXPRESS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908

... afternoon, Lieut. Selfridge is dead and M. ' Wright is in hospital with a fracture of the left thigh, ceeeral of his ribs on the right side bent., his head cut, and his body brained. The dead lieutenant was the nephew of Admiral Selfridge, and was regarded ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOW AJtt) WHY THE DISASTER

... vesterday afternoon Lieut. Selfridge is dead, and Mr. Wright is in hospital with a fracture of the thigh, several of his ribs on the right sido bent, his head cut, and his body bruised. Tho dead licutenant was the nephew cf Admiral Selfridge, and was regarded ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A BROTHER'S TEARS. [From our own CorrospondenLl

... and when he learned cf the death of Lieut. Selfridge he completely broke down. _ . . I know Orville is safe, he said, became the Wright family is always lucky in accidents. But the death of poor Selfridge is awful. What a terrible responsibility for ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 5 | Tags: none