Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1898-05-26
DEADLY NEW BULLETS.
UkENv1aBLE LOT OF TIE Ne. WHO
Rust FACE T1E MAGAZINE c9.o.
One OF tie Modern Style Missile. WI. PISS
Through Seven Soldiers stood in Line
~ Ien>.cn Hail win Lay Low an Al
saneinc Foe-youniei >e.f-Trea:ed.

Cae OF tie Io1eru style Missiles ~ III .'-FS /
Through Seven Soldiers stood in Line |
-sLea1:en Hall win Lay Low an Al
s2nein. Fne-syoundeI >e.f-rrea,cd.
l. has been said that the >ev AMY
rifle IS ''huDIane --.nat i punc.agea
clean holes, and Is less likely 10 indie.
dangerous injury. Ace oraiug II the
bes, evidence, however. tie TACT =
very mach TIE other way. T4e ncw
style bullet. very long an1 with .
diameter about the same IS that Of
lead pencil, leaves the gun with ~
velocity of half 3 mile second, with
a pressure behind ii OF forty thousand
pounds per square inch Four miles
from the muzzie of the e2pon, il Is
travelling n Il rata o. one hundred
yards q second. and will penetrate the
abdomen Of man VINO happens To lie
IN the way. Owing 20 lis velocity, a1i
10 It's %fo-arv motion CT twenty four
hundred revolutions second, i; de-
velops an explosive energy when II
strikes anything II moderate range.
splintering bones into small pieces and
e:Tectually destroying any organ Ike
the liver or kidney.
Owing 70 these conditions. n man
who Is hit III Al arm bone or leg bone
bv bullet from n modern rifle mus.
IN nearly every instance die or submit
to anoulation \ hole through m i'm
portaat blood vessel. being punched
cieanlv out. results IN profuse and
! dangerous he,norrhage right away, SO
that the victim is likely to die before
surgical all can arrive Much valua-
bic information In this. line has been
! obtalned by firing eXperlmenta!ly at
! corpses at various ranges, and obsery-
! ing the character of the injuries in
tiicted 1t has been found in this man
ner incidentally. that one Of these bul-
let's will pass through seven men stood
| IN line The French have done good
! deal of experimenting with silhouette
!, soldiers, cut out Of boards and fired n.
from given distances. From the re
sultins hits they have tried to reckon
casualty percentages.
Under modern conditions troops
within firing distance nI al enemy will
have TO meet veritable hail Of bullets.
4 modern rifle is able to deliver forty
shots ninute Herr ..prinz Ger
man military surgeon, writing of the
recent civil war in Chile, says: THE
BalmaCelists, who were no towards
declared that their establishment
caused by the terrible storm of pro
lectiles, left them unable t. use theil
own weapons Ia battle the rifles
described will be supplemented by i'm
| | ',4i L, y.
thousand shots minute, with muz
gle velocity Of a quactc: Of a mile
second, aid an effective range OF oa,
an,j half miles Un0er such circnm
stances, obviously, i Will not be pos
aible for military commanders 10 risI
their troops III the open inasmnch a
to do 50 would he Wholesale suicide
10 illustrate the dcstructivenes5 0
modern weapons on laud, let It l.
Supposed that a command is well post
ed and concealed &-ith a six-g gun bat
terv Of these small breech -loadiu,
cannon, couple Of Gatlings. and
/, regiment Of 200 infantry armed Wit
I1rag- Jotgeuscn rifles 4 hostile fore
Of twice the strength approaches /
within distance: OF 5000 yards Th
range being carefully c1lcu lated, n
, lowing for the czpan ion Of the cone
os fire from the artillery. the six car
| non will cover a,Iine Of 1tiU yards. \
I the word firing begins. and III on
minute tlfirty-six s'r..pnel are hnr!e
{ at the Advancing Toe. They burst 300
: yards in front of theteneny, scatter
I0cr. u S0J Ila-Spurtr+- of death anon