Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — Didn’t Hit Her. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Hit Her.

One of the big ships of the British navy recently ran across a derelict lumber ship in the channel, ‘and after failing to get it in tow determined to blow it up with shells to get it it out of the way of commerce. The great guns were fired at her for a long time, but the vessel refused to be torn to pieces by the terrible missiles in a fashion that was truly mysterious until thel next day, when the derelict went alshorc of her own accord, and it was found that not one of the shelle had hit her.