Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-25
FRIoHTFuL WEAPONS OF WAR.


One Shot Could Destroy warship or n
Regiment.
New York World.
The carnage In the next war must be
awful. Regiments Will be wiped out
where in other times individuals would
have been killed.
Tho krag-Jorgonsen rife, now in use
In tho United States army. will DISCHARGE
forty shots minute within II radius OF
900 yards, Its penetrating power " Xix
times greater than that OF the old VIM
chester or springfield. Speaking roughly.
a bullet from this rino would ponC trate
INC bodies OF SIX men at distance OF
l0lJ TO 700 yards, IL will also pcnctra o
thirty Inches OF hard oak. 1t will XIII at
With tho enormously Increased range
OF arms ana smukeleSs powder II wll
sometimes be, impossible to tel where
ni,ng comes from l,cglmcnts may b.
moved down before tncy are aware OF
the neishborhood Of an enemy.
Mhiie thomas ColLey. q military mis-
escape, a sentinel nrcd at him With tho
kraE-Jorsenseh rifie, a. distance Of
twenty yards, The bullet blew OH Ito
top of HIS head. Had he been At groster
distance 1t would have passel through,
An ingenious man Of science. DE- De
mustheues OF Roumanln, has had tie
happy idea TO practice on living horses
and dead men with modern army rnca.
Firing at corpse with Mannlicher
flllt At "A dihtahCt OF SOU tfft ne nfuuNffN
complete perfofntion of tho Uranium with
ulmultaneous rupture of the stomach
ard intcstines.
with II living horse the bullet passed.
through the heId and lcnEthwisc through
the backbone, grinding II TO powder.
Al shorter distances bullet striking
the head smashed II to pieces.
According TO the doctor, the bullets
cause mn amour tof hemorrhngo which Is
sure TO be fatal wherever this. wound Us
received soldier accidentally shot In
the leg died md four uunrtA OF blood were
found IN hts nleural onyity.
All the nations of Europe, ng well rs
the United States, are armed with now
magazine rifles OF nearly equal power.
A Maxim rnpld fire gun, weighing only
le1 pounds. has capacity. for placing
900 bullets IN minute wherever they
The browning rapid Ere gun. used IN the
United States army, Ia capable OF hring
400 rounds In one minute and forty Beo-
onds
The pneumatic dynamite guns ut Sandy
Hook are capable of throwing ~ shell
contalnlnG, 500 pounds OF dynamite dis
Each gun weighs 5000 pounds They
are 80 feet long and the bore is IS inches
A shell from one OF these guns would,
according to United States military of
foers. destroy the largest warship alloat.
II would destroy every artificial construc-
ton within a radius of 400 feet OF the
explosion. a city block would DO wiped
out by II.
IL Il flhlfN'u lWI mus khll AilhA bAA' HA'F
well placed would destroy three men-oi-
war.
my shots were fired In ilftefn minutes.
From the pubsequent tcst with the full
charge OF dynamite there u every renhon
TO believe that this, rate could be main
tanned with the cxpl0svo charge,
A iO00-pound shell from one, OF the Y
inoh guns nj Sandy Hook will penetrate
IT, inches Of steel. Stone Qualifications
NH be useless against such weapons for
no, "a airing ttnuQ Will only make
many additional nisdlen.
A Hotchklss quick-nring gun In made
S Shss w sf rn Gn 90 gsaE sadess
minute or nj the rate of $1,000 an hour
Each one VIII kill six men,
THIS gun Is easily por,apie by one man.
In France the gun has been fired rapidly
without rest for three hours. During
this test, 100, 900 cartridges wore used
4 iOD-pound proiec,ile .nrcd from u
inch gun, tho largest In use In the
limited states navy: has paced throngh,
fourteen inches q Harveyi2ea nickel
of htlf-lnch steel ntnd then gone a mile
or two beyond. The steel used IN TINS
case IL tho most successful srmor yet
" ne snsn weighed 100 pounds and was
propelled by ~ patnass g gunpowdsr; !,
nn Sysa y poree o. Of 81 fo6t ,oe
made n clean. round hole.
One Of tho newest engines of destruction
The invention lies In tho powder which ii
to 10 ussd.
The Inventors propose to construct a
twenty-inch gun which would bo able 90
throw 500 pounds OF explosive ten miles.
That would destroy Il whole city. let alone
a ship. Ths powder has been used with
good results In snail guns.
The British battleRhip Henbow carries
gun. of llos tons and i6ix-inch caliber.
s,verai ships OF her class carry gums OF
similar caliber. When tho enormous pow
err OF the twclve-inch gun Is remembered,
the destructive qualities of this ono will
be Understood.
The Italian mnn-of-war Andrea Doris I
carries 1os-ton Armstrong gun, which !
has proved effective At a distance OF thir-
teen miles.
Tho Haskell gun, In which a succession |
OF charges are exploded as the shot passes !
the bore, will throw lb5-pound /
she'll through twenty-fonr inchea Of Iron I
at a distance OF fifteen milcs.