Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — BIGGEST CUN ON EARTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIGGEST CUN ON EARTH.

The Great Srnpp Gun, 87 met Long, That Shoots Fifteen Mile:. * Through the courtesy of Herr Lauter, an expert German engineer, we have obtained a cut of the biggest gun on earth. The sketch was made by Herr Lauter and shows the gun as it will probably be exhibited at the World’s Fair. When Lieutenant Baker suggested to the Krupp representative that this gun be left on the trucks, Herr Lauter said it would depend altogether on whether they had their own car or were compelled to use one manufactured in this country. A special track will have to be laid to the fair grounds, over which to haul the gun. A heavy foundation will have to he prepared on which the gun can stand. In speaking of the matter Lieutenant Baker said: “Our biggest guns are about forty-live feet feet in length. The Krupp gun will be, I think, about eighty-seven feet long. If it were fired on the lake front the concusion would be so great that it would shatter nearly all the window glass in Chicago, it would carry a ball from the lake front up

over the housetops of Evanston, a distance of fifteen or eighteen miles. Its initial velocity is 4,500 per second.” The gun will be shipped to America by a special steamship and transferred from the seaboard by cars made especially for it.—Chicago Times.

THE BIGGEST GUN ON EARTH.