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FLYING MACHINE ! BADLY WRECKED WRIGHT AND COMPANION HURLED TO GROUND Liout. Sclfridgo Dies Later?Inventor Sustains Severe Injuries But Will Recover. WjisIi i ti<> I on. Sept. 17.?Alter having drawn tlx* attention ?>f the world to his aeroplane flights at Fori .Mover and having established new world records i'or heavier-fhan-air flying machines, Orville Wright todnv -not with a tragical mishap while inaKiirj a two-man flight. The aerplanist was accompanied was Lieut. Tlios. K. SVl fridge of the signal corps of the army. I 'lent. Selfridge was fatally injure,1 ami died at 8. It) o'clock tonight. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, ImiI i> expected to recover While the machine v:?s encircling the drill groninls a piopcilo<- bind" snapped <?|| hittinir some oilier part "I I he intricate mechanism e'tus??d if (o overturn in the air and fall loth" ground, I'll\ <dopinu the two occupants i:i lie debris. Soldiers and speelalors ran ac?* >ss t lie I iclil to where the aeroplane i.ad fallen and assisted in lifting Mr. A\ r;vli! ,iiid I#i< i't. S"|lrii|g'e from tin dcr (lie tangled mass of mnchincrv. rods, wires and shreds of inusl'n, Mr. Wright was conscious and said* "Oh, hurry and lift the motor." Lieut. Selfridge was unconscious ami iiad apparent ly struck the ground with ureal I tore. 11 is lic.ad was cove-red wilii ldo.nl ami lie was choking when the soldier.-, extricated him from ' under I lie machine. i l)r. W alters, a New uric plivsi- I cian, was one ..I' the first to reach ' the spot ami rendered first mi 1 to the 1 injured men. When llu-ir wounds ; had liecn liandaged Mr. Wrieht am'! liient Sol fridge were taken to the I Forth Meyer hospital at the other j1 end of I In* field. It was feared thai ! 1 Mi. \\ right was suI tering from iulernal injuries, lie Ii;i<| lapsed into ' a stale o| scmi-conscioiisncss l>v the ' time lie rea<'lied the hospital, while liient. Selfridge did not regfain con- : sciousness at all. lie was suffering from a fracture at the base of Ihe skull and was in a critical condilon. Alter a hurried surgical examination il was aiinonnced that Mr. Wriglil j was in>I dangerously injured. lie is' sulfcring from a fracture of his left thigh ami several ribs on the right side are fractured. I'Oili men received deep cuts about > Ihe head. Mr. Wright regai I con-! sciousness at I lie hospital and dictated a cablegram to h i ^ brother at Lenians, France, and ivipiesled that tliej same message be sent to bis sister i in I lather at I )ay 1 on. () h so, assn ri i ig I I hem I ha I he was all rigli t. Large Crowd Sees Start. Fully L\00 person had gathered in '"iticipa a flight by this altornoiin, The aeroplane was still in its slied. but Mr. Wright arrived a few ininutes later and ordered il taken to the northern end of the field 10 be placed on I lie stal ling track in readiness fur a flighl. Iw el \ hod \ w a> ordered back from i he maehilie ami M r. Wright I nrne.l <o I .ciul. Sel friilge and said : "You might as well get in. We'll si art in a couple of minutes." Mr. \\ ri trill aiiuouiiced several davs i agn llial he would lake Lieut. Sel- J I ridge, w.io i? secretary uf the Aerial j l-.\periuieni assucialion and an aero-j plani>l himself, on his icxi flight, i I lie young ollicer was delighted |u ! have an uppurt unity lo fly in l be ' aeroplane. lie was to leave Salur-, day lor St. .luscph, Mo., where lie! was to assist Lieut. Foulois in opera!-' ing I lie liablwiu airship at the com-I iug army manoeuvres. j Lieut. Sell ridge look off his coal j and hat and look bis place in the! extra seal next to thai occupied by Mr. Wright. Air. Wright later start-j ed |lie motor by means of a storage battery, his assistant, Taylor and I Furuess, turning the propellers to gel them going. At ;">.! ! the aeroplane was released and il was noticed that 11 did not rise as ipiickly from the ground a> on previous two-man flights. Lieut. Sel fridge weighed about 17."> pounds, making the weight greater than the machine bad ever carried before. After gliding over the ground on its runners for .'10 feel the machine j rose gradually and had gained a hei^ni of 10 feet when if passed over the starting apparatus for the J first liuie. There was a six-mile wind and il was noticed (hat Ihe machine did not run as smoothly as on its former flights, most of which were made in calm weather. The . ncroplanist, however, apparently had control of the craft, which rose to a height of 75 feet as it completed the a second round of the field. This height f( was maintained on the third round. ti While the machine was turning at h (lie southern end of the field, several si thousand feet from the spectators, tl soino one shouted: ii "What is.that? Something fell!" ci Machine Turns Over. P Immediately all eyes were on the aeroplane and it was seen to turn ov- n or 011 its left side and, pausing a moincut, make a complete turn and then 1 come swooping to the earth in a cloud " of dust. No effort on the part of t! the aviator could possibly have averted the accident. IMancs and rudders were absolutely incapable of righting , tlic niachinc when it had turned in llial manner. ' Several o(ficers who were standing r around the starting apparatus order- c, ed the mounted soldiers over to the wreck, but. spectators, soldiers, officers ^ and newspaper men were already running across the field. It was fully a j}1 minute before any one reached the jj tailzied nrtiss. The mounted soldiers formed a w cordon around (he wreckage, while ^\] others frenziedly endeavored to lifl |n I lie heavy mass of machinery and wood i I hat pinioned Wright and Selfridge ?| to (he ground. Lieut. Selfridge's face was covered with blood and he was groaning and choking from internal ?r hemorrhage. Orville Wright lay by p( Ii is side, his face as pale as (lie mass q iif white muslin overhead. lie was conscious and asked that (1 I Ik- machine be lifted off his leg. "Oh, bul ii will hurt when tliev ti loach that leg,'' said Mr. Wright, ti I'icce af'l'er piece of (he wooden r< frame was broken off as a half dozen tit men endeavored to free the injured tl men. As soon as they could be ex- ti Iricated they were taken to one side Ii ind physicians from the crowd went Y\ lo their aid. in Their clothes were loosened and a< their wounds bandaged. Attendants j " from the post hospital hastened across I '' I lie field to llic place where the ma- 1)1 i-hiiie lay and as soon as possible Mr. Wright and Lieut. Selfridge were laid mi stretchers and carried to the hospilal. a, After a surgical examination i( was pi announced a (lie hospital that Lieut, pi Selfride was in a critical condition, b< having suffered a fracture at (he base Tl of the skull. It was said then that e< Mr. Wright was not seriously injur- a) ed. g< A1. 7. In o'cluck Maj. Crosby, Maj. Met'aw, Maj. Ireland and Capt. Bailey, | lie army surgeons attending the injured men, gave out the following' statement : | ' .Mi\ Wright has fractures of theij,, left thigh and several ribs on the (.j rignt side, lie was much shocked, but i |j ha- reacted, well. Lieul. Selfridge re-j ceived a fracture of the base of the | skull. 11is condition is extremely L? crit ical. si Later one of the surgeons express- n ed the opinion that Lieut. Selfridge (1| probably would die within, a short time. . Mr. Wright's leg was set by Dr. L. ^ L. Watters of New York and Surgeon (|( Bailey of the army. They also sel two ribs. I???i!i of t':e injured men sustained t severe s?-alp woumls in addition to (| i in-ir other injuries. Tlie surgeons i took Lieut. Selfridge to the onerat-l ' I c< ing room and removed the part of the ? broken -.kull over the left ear, which | was canning convulsion. -? P1 At 10 minutes alter S o'ch.ek Lieut. L| Selfridge died, lie had not regained c<>n-cii.n-ne>s. 1|(. wa- expecting his I ~ , . .. . , 1 ,, . ai 111<>l her. w ho lives m San r rancisco.' ..... . . , i Ii h> arrive in \\ a-hington this month, jj, lie i> a nephew of Admiral Selfridge . c: and has a brother who i?- an officer . in in tiie navy. Death of Lieut. Selfridge. Dr. Howard II. Bailey made the fir>( announcement of Lieul. Selfridge's death. Just after the lieutenam had passed away the doctor came to those waiting in the front rooms 1 and halls and said, "He is dead." n' "His death," said (lie doctor, "was w due to a compound fracture at the (' base of the skull. He never regained consciousness from the moment he struck the ground, despite the heroic 01 remedies which were administered. There wa- absolutely no response to ' the treatment given him. He passed i A away peacefully. Maj. Sijuier advis- | ed the family of the lieutenant's ^ death and some word is expected 1 hourly as to whether they will come here or have the body sent to (he Pacifie const for interment. We have to abide by the army regulations, 1 G which prescribe that tiie war department shall be first advised. The adjutant general has been notified and I llie body will not be removed from the hospital until word is received from thai office." Mr. Wright yesterday replaced the propellers which he has been using e with another pair, the blades of which ) (1 re six inches longer. They were u w the first time in today's dig fous flight. An examination of roken blxdo showed that it had b< napped oft' at a point one-fourth 10 distance from the hub. A d< {dentation in the broken piece in ?ted that it had struck some otl art of the aeroplane. Octave Chanut, the father of ae antics in America, examined reck age. lie said that if the Wrig ud used but one propeller insh f two the.result would have been ast as serious. Only this morning Mr. Wright 1 3en asked what the result would one of his propellers broke wli ie machine- was in flight. <<r| tlicr propeller would tend to l? io machine around," lie said, "I would stop the motor and glide irth." Among (he oye-witnessos was J hnrles R. Flint of New York, int ntional representative of the \Vri? others. Mr. Flint said tonight t! ic mishap would not cause the F foyer flights to bo abandoned. T! ill bo resumed, he said, as soon r. Wright has recovered and I aehine can bo repaired. Oiricers of ||,e signal corps ? her enthusiasts at Fort Meyer wi icliued to express the belief that i.v's accident was not"due to a fan nnciple, but to a defect in the p slier, which was made of spru 110 ?f (he members of the si<>-i ?rps board who had been conduct! o Fort. Meyer tests said: "The resumption ?f the uoroph nils will depend on the length me which it will lake Mr. Wright 'cover from his injuries. Tins'ac Mil will, of course, seriouslv ham) io possibility of securing appropr ->ns trom congress for the aerom cal work of the signal corps. '1 right brothers, however, have c\ ?>i-o advanced ideas in regard >i ial 1 lights, and if thev contii loir work it is very probable tl io efloet of this one accident will I'ereoine. Machine Tampered With. The belief was expressed bv a s 'ant of the signal corps that I >roplane had been tampered w evious to its flight, but this is i robable because the machine 1 mmi closely guarded while at the fu was housed in a specially constr I shed and a guard kept Strang a ay both day and night. The si 'stion of fo?I play is discredited 1 those acquainted with the metlu sat'eguarding the machine. An Expert's Description. Charles White of White & Midd '?>. Baltimore, Aid.. a mechanical , M't. gave this description <,f the J?'?t to Messrs. Wright and S, dge: I witnessed the Hying of t ho ae ? wns performing bear illy for six or seven minutes wl iddenly one of t ho propellers br< "?? the end. This caused the i, "no to become so thoroughly out dance through centrifugal force 1 make it unmanageable, and it in; dart to the go rim d while still i sr operation of the right propcll ?*ing .1 to strike the ground w great deal more force than it wot *ve done by gravity. I do not f ,:l1 i* any serious defect in 1 achine. but merely want of bet instruct ion j? I ho propeller; the re, T do not feel that the maeh ion Id be condemned beyond I 'int. T should imagine that wli o machine made the dart for I ' foil at the rate of 20 mi 1 hour. T saw the piece that fl "'0 propeller fall to t ho ear I 01,0 the, I light of ihe machine cammed it thoroughly and s ' lung to l)e criticised outside of i ?"d oonst met ion of tl,e propeller *' Before the machine made I jrht 1 remarked that the wood p flh-rs were not of the proper o< ruction. Three seconds after I eeident happened the big mach |>poared like a bird with a brol mg. The forward side of the u line struck the ground first. Wrij nd Sol fridge were in thoir usual lions on the seats when they lai ! I hey were not thrown out. io mechanical devices remained let, though the braces and eanv <?rk were wrecked. The accid ns duo entirely to the defective p oiler. The aeroplane was under i) control and the accident was c unly not due to any fault of one ion." ' BLOOMY ASPECT AT PORT MEY >ost Saddened by Fatal Airship , cident?Wright on Cause of Wreck. Washington, Sept. 18.?Fort M r, .lie scene of yesterday's aeropl lisaster, which resulted in the do set! TJ &J -* G I ias" d, the ^ y C fk*' O ^3 r-? P* *z* ni <*> *!><?< O CJ-O 2 eon 3?3*sG fcf?p 3. ?'2~S |gg?t&& E z i ? <*: ?r & 5 I,or p p r* dq if: Mrs. Alice Robertson, ;ad nt TEACHER OF ?a Voice, Piano and Harmony. iile Studio Over Mower's Store. ,rn Opens Sept. 1st. )?t ? ? VIOLIN MUSIC: k ' Miss Carrie Pool will give instruc>ht t*?n ?n ^ie Violin, beginning mt September the 14th. iev ^c^ress: *727 Harrington Street. n's Phone: No. 78. LANDER COLLEGE (formerly Willinnistou Female College). J0" LiREENWOOD, S. C. Uv Rev. John 0. Willson, President. IO~ A!>I.iNS. ?ei>1/ |S- '9?8' Comfortable, ateamCO. I I J'eated, eleclric lighted building, In citv I I limits. Good food. Home-liko life and 1 IK) 1 vy oversight. in<y . Thorough teaching and training. Fine work ?? music and art. Cost reasonable. Send for catalogue. ItlO Due West Female College. )or With the best modern couvenia iences and equipment, and high ui- standards of teaching and living, ho this is an ideal placc for prcpara1" tion for the great responsibilities cf womanhood. ( lllc ,. , 1;ll Hi RMS MODERATE, ho i,<or attractive catalog write REV. JAMES BOYCE. Due West, S. C. i or- ( ith University of South Carolina c m~ Mride range of choice in Sciena" tific, Literary, Graduate and Pro>rt fessional Courses leading to degree nt~ of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of c Brs vScience, Licentiate of Instructions, l Bachelor of Laws, Master of Arts, \ Civil Engineer and Electrical En- q >(ls gineer. Well equipped Labora- p tories. Library of over 40,000 vol- ? limes. I,.. Expenses moderate. Many stu- .* cx- c^ents make their own expenses. fit._ Next session (104th) begins Ij. September 23d, 1908. For announcement write to the President, Columbia, S. C. ,o- j iti- ' ^ 1785 College ef Charleston 13QS1 of hanleston, S? C. ido I24th Year Begins September 25th. ? ui- Entrance examinations will be er held at the County Court House 1 it]|' 011 Friday, July 3, at 9 a. 111. All i ild cancl'c'ates for admission can com- t eel pete in September for vacant Boyce i I Scholarships which pay $100 a year, x ,(' One free tuition scholarship to each ter county of South Carolina. Board r .lt'~ and furnished room in dormitory I !'!? $rr- Tuition $40. For catalogue, t 1,18 address Harrison Randolph, 1 '^n President, r r: I ICS I ? II I |J BinII I ui. Piano and Organ Economy. ! I If you arc interested in the purchase of a ilW PIANO or an ORGAN, wc want to sell you one. Don't think you must go to some mail order th(> house to buy a low priced piano or organ- nor i pntside of South Carolina to get the best piano I s- l>f organ. We have a great variety of grades, " ii.? nl1 styles, at prices which cannot tail to interest you We are manufacturers' factory / rn- representatives for several of the largest and V most famous makers of pianos and organs >11- We lrtke p'.4' instruments in exchange and i make most liberal terms of imymeiit to those [110 who wish to buy on time. No house-quality of 1 pianos and organs considered?can undersell us. , "u 1 wenty.four years of fair dealing in Columbia [ COll n,,(j throughout South Carolina is our reference J and guarantee. na- Write us at once for catalog price and terms. 1 . lit Malone's Music House, Columbia, S. C. ' j>0_ PIANOS ANI) ORGANS. a lid- ' All SUMMER EXCURSION RATES ] *n~ Via Southern Railway. ass ent Round trip summer excursion " ll)_ tickets to seashore nnd mountain re or sort points are now on sale via Pf- Southern Railway at greatly reduc ra ed rates. Tickets good returning until October 31st, 3908. Asheville, Wavnesville, ITendersonvillc, in tho "Land of I he Sky"; Lake Toxaway r ER 11,1(1 1110 "Beautiful Sapphire Country," now in their glory. t (Vc- Apply to Southern Railway agents for rates, tickets, etc. J. C. Lusk, Division Passenger Agent, ey- ?T. L. Meek, Charleston, S. C. uno Asst. CJen'l Passenger Agt., atli Atlanta, Qa. 4 % ?T ? r?? - ' 1 The Commercial Bank, < NEWBERRY, S. C. \ Condensed from report to State Bank J Examiner at the close of business September 1 1th, 1908: RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts $372,975.30 Overdrafts !. 4,938.33 Furniture and Fixtures 3,1 16.93 Cash 40,393.01 $421,423.57 LIABILITIES:Capital $ 50,000.00 Undivided Profits 52,457.73 Dividends Unpaid 1,452.00 Cashiers Checks 29.OO Bills Payable 60,000.00 Due to Banks 1,429.46 Individual Deposits - 256,055,38 $421,423.57 J NO. .M. KINARD, O. B. MAYER, J. Y. McFAUy, g President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. E 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid in Our Sav- 1 ings Department. I t i REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE EXCHANGE BANK of Newberry, S. C., Condensed from report of State Bank Exam: iner September 1 1th, 1908. resources: ^oans and discounts $214,655 05 )verdrafts 3,143.18 furniture and fixtures 3,696.62 ?ash 011 hand and in Banks 17,138.44 $238,633.29 liabilities: Capital stock.. $ 50,000.00 'rofits less all expenses paid (earned) 7, *01.77 J11 paid Dividens 17.50 !ashiers Checks 1,476,87 Le-Discounts 6,789.22 Jills Payable 95,000.00 )enosits f Ba"k? 3,075.91 " ( Individual 74,882.02? 77.957-93 *238,633.2y Your business is what we want. We pay 4 per cent 011 time deposits . D. DAVENPORT, M. L SPEARMAN, ' President. Cashier. 5DW. R. HIPP, W. B. WALLACE, Vice-President. Assistant Cashier. GEO. B. CROMER, Attorney. Vewberry - College E Two Courses: vV 1 Bachelor of Arts 3 Languages and Mathematics E with Electives R 2 Bachelor of Science R Mechanical and Electrical Y Engineering with A. B. English C HIGH STANDARDS D GOOD SANITATION _ UNUSUAL ECONOMY L Positive Moral Influences E OPENS SEPT. 23. i 3 For Illustrated Catalogue ASSB E J. A; B. Scherer, Newberry, S. C. CHICORA COLLEGE, GREENVILLE, S. C. Owned and controlled b> 'he Presbyteries of the Synod of South Carolina; A high grade college for women. A Christion home school. , Graduate courses in the Arts and Sciences, Music, Art, Expression, Gymnastics ind Business. Large and able faculty, beautiful grounds, elegant buildings, modern conveliences, healthful climate. Location in Piedmont section, and in city of 2<j 000. EXPENSES FOR TIIE ENTIRE YEAR. A. Tuition, Board, Room and Fees - . . . . #18* 00 1 B. All included in proposition (A) and Tuition in Music, Art or Expression $203.00 to $213 00 Next session opens September 17th For catalogue and information address S. C. BYRD, D. D., President. /