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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

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

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

MR WRIGHT IN HOSPITAL

... several of bis ribs on the right .side bent, his head cut, and hie boay bruised. The dead lieutenant was a nephew of Admiral Selfridge, and was regarded as one of the most export aviators in the United States. The eause of death was fracture the base of the ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Cork Examiner
County: Cork, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 634 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE AEROPLANE DISASTER

... with !racquet of the left thigh. Several ribs on the right Oda are bent, hie bead ent an d his body bruised. Lieutenant Selfridge was one of tha moat experi swam in the United States Mr. Wright had decided to try the twwman flight required by the Government ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 7 | 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

THE. IiANCASHIKE COTTON

... balonoe, and “ ‘™ ground, -ill the «I propeller. The mechamcol devicos rcmaiom, intact. Lieutenant Sdfridae the nephew miral Selfridge, and dt d United the most expert aviators SUt«s. Thi! »u» ot death vra. at the bale the comoomneM. Mr. Wtigm, reeord flight ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Irish Times
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 1315 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

stion came curiously from an Irish sapifor the office of ahorcbolden' auditor, moreover, pointed out that the ..

... lied wins sometimes, and black sometimes, bet white always.'* The sorident Mr. Orville Wrights aeroplane and the sad death Selfridge give# a set-back to aeroplaning just at the moment when it almost seemed that tho conquest the air bad last been achieved ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1463 | Page: 7 | Tags: none