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What A Cannon Ball Can Do.

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

In dweiling upon the wonderful power of the guns of the Indiana, Albert Franklin Matthews, in an article ou "The Evolution of a Battleship" in The Century, gives illustrations from the recent Chilean civil war, showing the effeotiveness of the smaller sizes of breechloading rifle guns. A shotweighing 250 pounds from an 8 inch gan of Fort Valdivia in Valparaíso karbor struck the crutser Blanco Encalada above the armor belt, passed through the thin steel plate on theside, ■went through thecaptain'g cabin, too the piliow from under hi3head, dropped his head on the mattress with a thump but without injuring a hair, passeci through the open door into the messroom, where it struck the floor and then glanced to the ceiling Then it went througha wooden bulkhead an inch thick Into a room 25 by 4 2 f eet, where 49 men were !eeping in hammocks It killed six of them outright and wounded six others. three of whom died. after which it passed through a steel bulkhead 5 inches thick and ended ir= course by striking a battery outside, in which it made a deut nearly two inches deep It was filledwith sand. Had it reieased deadly gases no one knows what damage i 5 might have done. A 450 pound missile from a 10 inch gun in the same fort etruok the same essel on its 8 inch armor. It hit square on a bolt. The shell did not pierce the armor, but burst outside the vessel. It drove the bolt clear through, and in its flight the bolt struck an 8 inch gun, completely disabling it. Such is the power of the smaller sized guns.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News