Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-18
AE:RONAUT WRIGHT
IS .D| D. |: 4 l WELL |.
No Internal Injuries Have Devel-
oped and He May be
Out Soon.
MAKING A GALLANT FIGHT.
lust How Accident Happened is
Still Matter Of Much
Uncertainty.
Mechanics Who Assisted in Work on
Machine Nearly Heart Broken
y Experts Dubious.

Machine Nearly Heart broken
y Experts Dubious.
Washington, Sept, 1S.--Lying in the
fort Myer hospital with a fractured
thigh and ribs, Orville Wright, the
aeronaut, who fell with Lieut.. Sell
fridge in yesterdays aeioplane acci-3
dent, is making a manly fight for re-
covery. Through the night there was
3 anxiety over the injured avator's con-
dition, but as day broke and no indi
cations of internal injuries developed
and as the attending surgeon after
call shortly after s o'clock announced
that MI. Wright was doing very we'll,
g there was great relief expressed among
those who were watching the progress
of the patient. Wilbur Wright, the
brother OF Orville, was notified today
of the latter's improvement.
Mr.. Flint who made inquiries at the
hospital as early as 5 o'clock this
morning said later that he believed
from the doctors account that Mr..
Wright would be out within six days.
Miss katherine Wright, a sister OF
Wilbur and Orville, who was immedi-
ately notified OF the disastrous end
Ing of the aeroplane flights. will reach
Z here over the Pennsylvania railroad
from Dayton, Ohio, at 4:40 o'clock this
afternoon, in order to be with her
& brother as much as possible while he is
at the hoseital.
MECHANICS HEART BRoKEN.
The mechanics who helped Wright
An fha work nm his 1nnphine q re- q ln1OSt
heart-broken over its wreck. Mechan-
&c Taylor said that when the aeroplane
fell he expected to find Orville dead.
None know better than L. said he.
THE heartaches and sleepless nights
this aeroplane has cost the Wright
brothers. 1t Is too terrible to think
about"
Mechanic Furnass said that he saw
SOrvllle trying hard to get the airship;
level again after the propeller broke,
revolving pulled the machine down
ward, and to the left. 1T was too
strong. said he, ito restore the
equilibrium of the machine. IL was
most distressing that this should
happen just at the zenith OF Wright's
success. He had bright prospects Of
becoming a very rich man.
DISCUSSION OF ACCIDENT.
.;,.s " tatlor. III discussing the acci-1
cent, 2Salus cOulus see INV. LIZ
two propellers could have come to-
gether. The angle line was in per-
feet condition before the slight, and
the ssteering-plane and main plane
were all right.
Both TAYLOR and Furnass visited
Wright this morning. Wright told
Taylor that he stopped the motor
after the accident happened in the
air.
From the latest account from eye
witnesses, the piece broken from tne
propeller struck one OF the supports
of the rudder. The machine did not
travel far before 1t started to swing
around on its own axis to the lett II
did not overturn as was the genera
impression given to spectators a. at ine.
tveered downward. Mr.. Wright again
rcgained his lateral equilibrium, but
the machine then plunged lorWaru.
striking the ground with tertll,G
force. Mr.. Wright believes ne !, M 7, t,,
been so feet higher in the air at the
time of the accident.
Another theory advanced by sew
eral witnesses is that one of the sup,
ports of the rudder snapped on ana "a
turn was broken off. This WOULD
cause the other propeller to swing.
the machine around.
LAHM TAKES EVIDENCE,
I,ient Frank p. .Lahm OF the signal
corps. who was among those first on
the scene, Immediately took evidence
from the eye witnesses. An INQUIRY
by the signal corps board VIII nv, oa
held and a. report forwarded 10 llie
secretary of war
from Lieut.. Selfridge's father IN san
Francisco or his mother and brother,
who are supposed to be in Boston. y n
til word is received from the fanny.
the body of the unfortunate oLiisst
yi, remain at the Fort Myer. hospital.
5Itfie nossible that an autopsy will be
hold TO determine whether his deatn
A was 1l,e to the fracture at the base Oh
tl,e skull or from some other injury.
AERO CLUB COMMENTS.
Naw York Sept. 1S.--Many members
ar the Aero club and the Aeronautic
society Of this city look on the death Oh
T .icmt THOMAS Il. Selfridge by the ac-
eden Ia the Wright aeroplane at hort
nIyer as the seYerest setback tnit aero
nautics has ever received, put =. -
Rue Jones, editor of the Aero, ia. =,
nointed out in an interview ina N
me history of aeroplanes there nave
hecn only four deaths compared VIII VIII
tbe great number in connection Win
Tho development OF the balloon:
TITS a question in the minns u
e,prOnlUtS mere W
S+ates Ssianal corps at washington Will
Insist now upon a member Of the n;na ae op-
nautical detachment accompanying ~,
vile Wright in his aefoplane Wheh
the official tests are made
WILBUR WRIGHT INFORMED:
4 !. Mans. France, Sept. 1S.-Wilbur
Wright brother of 0rvilie Wrlght, VINO
has been conducting series OF eSp per-
meIits here for several weeks past,
wifi, a Wright aeroplane, was ve hs
much pertprbea when rom ne M ssshS .aa
NE hrnther had suffered an acci-
dent II which y, Lieut. ph at anee = eo ss
termanded the orders given for me
nreparations for his flight Of today AZ ~ N
,n,Iirh lie purposed to try for the alieh-
,ein and Aaero club prizes
w 1iE,srwthine was ,in readiness, barring
few final details, At the a fed ass,,n o.
Auvoprs, largs eroW ", l l,,ty a found
, Anil in keeping the people back :,
from, Inc private enclousure havlns az =
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