Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — POWERFUL NEW SHELL TESTED. [ARTICLE]

POWERFUL NEW SHELL TESTED.

Device of Far Greater Destructive Power than Shrapnel Invented. A shell of terrific explosive power, wide radius of destruction and a capacity to annihilate by bursting fragments and a shock as effective as a streak of lightning will be the feature of the fall campaign in the Philippine Islands. Tests of the charge of this terrible engine of war have been made at Sandy Hook, the Government guarding closely jts secret of manufacture. A shell of this nature charged wjth an explosive equal to melinite or dynamite falling near a battalion of the enemy would kill or cripple a very large percentage of the battalion. The chances of escape from this tremendous machine will be decreased 100 times, experts say, as compared with shrapnel discharged at the same objects.