Show DAMAGE DONE IIY y ONE SHEll 3 DESTRUCTIVE FORCE OF MISSILES MIS-SILES AT LONG RANGE f 0 f Effect of An Explosion On the New York at the San Juan Engagement Engage-ment One Man Killed New York June 4The following article arti-cle signed by Assistant Surgeon Raymond Ray-mond Spear on board the flagship New York showing the effect of the explosion of a 14 C M shell appeared today in the Medical News During the bombardment of San Juande Puerto Rico on May 12 the New Ydrk was struck once by a 14 C M shell at a distance of about 5500 yards The shell came over the stern of the shio and struck an iron stanchion three inches in thickness which was broken short off at the point of contact The shell went on fir a distance of about 15 feet and exploded ex-ploded in a wooden boat which was cov erci with canvas The boat was demolished demol-ished the lighter planking being badly spanterei and driven downward and forward for-ward against an iron steam winch The oars in the boat were broken and one piece was driven forward along the spar deck but did no damage The canvas cmcrins the boat was torn and rent into shreds by the force of the explosion and by splinters passing through it and then caught fire showing that canvas under such conditions will not stop splinters The shell itself burst Into many pieces varying from the size of a pea to large pieces weighing about live pounds The direction these fragments took was forward for-ward downward upward and to both sles many of them going over the ships side others passing through the copper ventilators and smoke pipes and doing but little damage Th < fragments that went downward and forward struck about the port eightinch waist gun where thare were 12 men stationed sta-tioned killing one man and injuring several sev-eral others The man killed Wicemark i v was struck by a piece of shell about two Inches scuare by one inch thick It en rii the left side of his neck near the V b angle of the jaw severed the blood yes gflc proceeded upward and backward into i hI brain probably injuring the medulla and lodged Under the brain probably injuring in-juring the medulla and lodged under the I skin just beneath the occipital branch The man fell forward losing consciousness Immediately His respiration ceased as soon as he was struck but his heart continued con-tinued to beat feebly for about five minutes I min-utes when all signs of life disappeared Another fragment of the shell of about th < same size struck a man named Fett I man on the anterior surface of the left thigh about three inches above the knee I and went through the limb taking a backward back-ward and downward course The femur was shattered into numerous fragments and the muscles were torn considerably I In ths track of the wound The leg was operated on and a portion of the femur resected the splinters and I crumbs of bone were removed the frag m nts were trimmed off and wired tog to-g ther and through and through drainage I established the limb beinrr put into a fenistrated plaster dressing The wound at last accounts was healing by primary union and there Is every reason to belle be-lle e that th leg will be saved Another man was struck in the left leg by a piece of shell about one inch by half an inch It entered the leg about its middle mid-dle on the outer side went inward and forward grooving the anterior surface of the tibia The fragments of bone were taken out of the leg by the piece Of shell There were several other minor injuries Pier s of shell struck several men but dd no damage One man felt something hot on his breast and on investigation l 11 a smaii piece of shell that had burnEd Its way through his clothing andre and-re iched his skin The fragments of the shrll were all hot as was shown by burnt wood and canvas The men injured by the shell all said they felt a burning stinging sensation about their wounds and in some cases the clothing was scorched The shell receives a great deal of heat from the friction in leaving the gun some of this heat Is lost through radiation In its flight through the air more heat Is developed on the impact of the shell and still more energy takes the form of Heat when the missile explodes making the fragments hot enough to set fire to wood All of the wounds made by the pieces of shell were eseptlc but they all were sluggish slug-gish In healing due to the lowered vitality vitali-ty and burning of the Injured parts |