The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-06-25
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Baltimore American. 1t has been
aid that the new army rifle is "hu-
nane',-that it punctures clean holes,
md is less likely to intiict dangerous
injury. According to the best evidence,
However, the fact is very much the
other way. The new style bullet, very
ong and with II diameter about the
same ms that of lead pencil, leaves
he gun with a velocity OF half a mile
i second, with n pressure behind it Of
10000 pounds per square inch. -Four
niles from the muzzle of the weapon
t is traveling at the rate Of 100 yardz /.
second, and will penetrate the aldo
nen OF Il man who happens to be in tbs.
Say. Owing to its velocity, and to rs
rotary motion of 2,40o revolutionS u
iecond, it develops un explosive energy,
when it strikes anything at a moder-
hte range, splintering bones into small
lpieces and effectually destroying any
organ like the liver or kidney.
Owing tothesc conditions, Il man who
S hit on an arm bone or leg bone by II
outlet. from q; modern rifle must in
nearly every instance die or submit to
III ampntation. Ahole through an i'm
,ortant blood vessel, being punched
clearly out, results i'll p~rofuse and dan
hat the victim is likely to die before
surgical aid can arrive. Much valuable
attenuation in this line has been OBJ
aimed by firing eyperimcntally at
,orpses ut various ranges, and rbserv-
ing the character of the injuries in
aictcd. 1t has been found in this man
ner, incidentally, that one of these
bullets will pass through seven men
stood in line. The French have done
il good deal of experimenting with
Silhouette soldiers, cut out of boards
Iuld fired at from given distances.
From the resulting hits they have tried
20 reckon casualty percentages
Under modern conditions troops
within firing distance of an enemy will
have TO meet a vcritablc hail of bullets.
y modern rifle is able to deliver forty
hhots Il minute. Herr Prinz. a German
military surgeon, writing of the recent
:ivil war in Chilli, says:
"The Balmnccdists, who were no
towards, declared that their %astonish-
ment, caused by the terrible storm of
projectiles, left them unable to use
heir own Weapons"
In IL battle the rifles described will
De supplemented by improved Calling
guns, which fire 1000 shots n minute,
With u muzzte velocity of a quarter OF
= mile z second, and an effective range
of one and u half miles. Under such
circumstances, obviously, it will not
be possible for military commanders,
to risk their troops in the open, mas
| ftl1ah nc II, do CO ,Nl1III- I'm ,rhn1acn1n
suicide.
10 illustrate the destructivcncss OF
modern weapons or land, let ii be sup
posed that a command is well posted
and concealed with q six gun battery
of these small breech loading cannon,
a couple of Gatlings, and IL regiment
OF 100 infantry armed with krng-Jor-
Genscn rifles. a hostile force of twice
The strength approaches to within IL
distance OF 1000 yards. The range be-
Ing carefully calculated, allowing for
the expansion of the cones, of fire from
tho artillery, the siN annon will COW
or n line OF LAO yards. At the word
firing begins, and in one minute thirty
six shrapnel are hurled at the advance
ing fee. They burst 200 yards in front
of the enemy, scattering l0.S0O mes
sengers of death among them. In the
same minute the two Gatlings deliver,
1000 shots, and the 1000 rifles dis
charge ia,o00 projcctiles. In sixty the
space occupied by 1900 men has been
swept by Il tremendous storm Of 26,s0D
missiles, and t.yo-thirds OF the oncom-
ing soldiers are laid low. One more
minute, with another discharge, and
few survivors are left to tell the tale OF
the disaster.
The wounded in a modern land bat
tic will have small chance of rescue.
1t will not be possible to remove them
from the fighting line during the con-
ilict, because the hospital bearers at
tempting the task would be killed.
The best TINT can be hoped is to at
tend to them within the next twenty
-four hours. The stern facts having
been realized, instruction has been Civ
IN to every private in the United States
army in the art of taking care of him
self in case he is hurt. He carries at
his belt what is called u First aid
packet" containing a roll of bandages.
I'm antiseptic compress and antiscptic
gauze, inclosed in a sealed rubber cas-
ing. If he suffers from a bullet wound
he stutfs a pug OF the gauze into the
hole and applies a bandage. This may
save his life and give the surgeon u
chance when there is an opportunity
for treatment.
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