Show ORVILLE ORVILE WRIGHT TELLS OF WRECK Describes How It Feels to I Fall Fal From Sky in an Aeroplane WAS DUE TO GUY WIRE WIREs s Says Twenty Feet More and aud He Would Mach Machine Sept Sept 22 2 Lying on ort a ahard a ahard hard bard bed ed hi hi his leg In splints an and hun hung the tho ceiling In a 1 support which pulls pUls on It I. I Orvllle Orville Or le Wright this after after- noun noon de described the accident In which Lieutenant Selfridge was killed t leg leI and Iome ome ribs broken and tho tito aeroplane with wih which ho he had been dal daily making new nev records crushed Into a s muss mass We Weak cak k from pain and loss of or sleep Mr r. r Wrights Wright's words were tow few and long pauses 8 separated his short sentences sentences But the indomitable courage of oC the theman man limn shone through everything he be said and nd his nerve dl did not fall fail tal him In going over or o the accident ent which heM held so much of pain for lor him mentally as well as us physically It Jt I can never happen again he ho said I 1 know how It happened happened from from froma a Q certain point I 1 know now that the proPeller propeller pro pro- peller struck a 0 wire gU guy It I was the lY to the rudder support ro rod But I dont don't know how the wire got ot to the propeller ler Wo 0 tried those propellers In tho ho house They did not hit anything I I knew know It was dangerous having the propellers revolve re so they would he likely to hit hi anything But we wc tried to make them hit lilt before tried before tried to force them to hit They rhey would not not They rhey had plenty plent of at clearance I dont don't know leo 2 how they hit how hit how I how hi-how the they came caine to get there thieve But tho they dl did Somehow that Iet propeller and that wire win e elme me to together The propeller hit lilt tho the wire twice lightly then hard I h heard It I heard the crash I didn't look back I didn't I know now what was happening looked back back I I saw him I dont don't know lat he saw I thought It I was tho the transmission that had given wa way 1 thought the propellers were ripping the te machine to pieces pieces c hInc Inc Machine Then we commenced to to spid around That was thu the unbroken propeller In ing us onward I cut oft off of the motor motor- motor Rule pulled the cord cord and and we lost headway the rud rudder cr was out of commission It I must have havo swung wung to one side use side use less less less-as as soon as af the wire got loose from fron the tall tall We Ve cant can't stay up ui u. u without without with with- wih- wih out headway so when tho the machine swung around In a circle and tho the rud- rud tier ter wouldn't work und and une the on engine lne Was stopped stopped-I I thought It I was grindIng grindIng grind- grind Ing lug us to leces I leces-I I couldn't see see we we began bean to elo drop I heard say Oh Oil oh like 10 that That's all aU he sala saia I 1 expected to right the tho machine it t I falling faling edgewise Tine Tho The on only I way to get get- headway was to fall fall we Cal we we didn't taU tall far enough It I started to right Twenty feet teet more moro and It would have Wo Ve didn't nave the twenty foot feeL feet V i It I It seemed a long time time we we tell fell very Cel r fast tate Everything E seemed d to hit hi mo at once I didn't lose consciousness I think but 1 J was Q cd an arid and things seemed dark I could hear her what was said sal people see seemed ed to ge get to us user er very l I could see he che he seemed to be le on all al fours and was rC groaning lie 10 didn't say anything that r r 1 J. heard henr I 1 don't dont remember what 1 I said J I was surprised how much I suffered then Linen Generally you ou dont don't you are aro ro first hurt I But Hut Its It's over o It cant can't be bc helped Nothing makes much difference except lie He must have ha felt so helpless help help- less falling that way vay Poor Sel- Sel fa |