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Press And Daily Dakotaian
Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota
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Accident at Washington Navy Yard spoils new $40,000 ten-inch rifled steel cannon during finishing; tool breaks and wedges in bore, likely total loss.
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Washington. June 4th--A very unfortunate accident which will probably result in the total loss of the first new ten-inch rifled steel cannon occurred at the navy yard here early this week.
The gun was undergoing finishing touches and one of the machinists was engaged upon the work of finishing the inside when he started the machinery which turned the boring tool. For some unexplained reason, probably because the tool employed was too large for the bore of the gun it broke off short and is firmly wedged in. Every effort to remove it without spoiling the gun has thus far proved useless and it is feared that the first of the great engines of warfare which were to have formed the ornament of the new navy is irreparably spoiled. This gun was one of the handsomest pieces of machinery ever turned out in any factory in the world. It has cost about $40,000, and the probabilities are that it will be absolutely worthless except for its weight in old steel.
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Washington
Event Date
Early This Week
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the gun is feared to be irreparably spoiled and probably worthless except for its weight in old steel. it cost about $40,000.
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A machinist was finishing the inside of the first new ten-inch rifled steel cannon at the navy yard. When he started the machinery to turn the boring tool, the tool broke off short and wedged firmly in the bore for some unexplained reason, probably because it was too large. Efforts to remove it without spoiling the gun have failed.