Big Gun Crumples Car.
So heavy is a great fourteen-inch gun just completed, to guard New York City from hostile attack, that it broke down one of the two flat cars conveying it along the West Shore Railroad, near Cornwall, on its way to Sandy Hook, to be mounted.
It is said to be the most powerful fourteen-inch gun ever made. It was on its way from Watervliet Arsenal when the journal of one of the cars, overtaxed by its excessive weight, wore out and had to be replaced. The gun extends almost the length of the two cars, the breech resting on the rear one.