Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-04-25

Intermittent .pufing' noise In the air. aud
display a remarkable 'wallzlng' action In
their flight and not unfrcquently break up
In escaping from the gun, together with the
melplent abraslons discovered In the Mon
arehs twenty-nvo-tou guns after an average
Of o.,ly piril.aue rounds, warrant the as
sumption that the above list Is a very small
moisty Of the injured guns which Tho ad-
miralty could produce, Il required to do So"
A few years ago g-lnch gun burst vio-
lsutly ON board the Russian frIgate Alexandra
NW,ai. in the Baltic, killing twelve officers
and men, and wounding thirty persons, and
seriously damaging the ship. This explosive
burst was. at the time, attributed to the gun
being made Of block-steel, but the most cur
sory view of the "ccrnetory Of suIcidesr al
tho Royal arsenal will show that this Is not
the only material liable 10 such fearful explo-
slous. Whenever a proiectlle ANS In lis exit
from a run. with n heavy charge behind, II
matter. not what material Il Is made Of an
explosion must take plAce. Several wrought
iron ooll-oups. aa well .s converted aups and
rifed cast-lron runs. have had studded shot
wedrod In their bore whilst firing with con-
sequences only not like that of the Alexandra
Nwsei because the guns crews were hid away
behind trayerses and other safe retreats.
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| ror, Of constrnctIon and oncratIop attsnd-
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tne Navy samcienuy alxe 70 inc noeesaiues