“On Sunday night...”
Date
2-21-1812
Newspaper
Western Intelligencer
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Worthington, Ohio
Serial Number
1193
Abstract
Felt report for the December 16, 1811 earthquake from Fort St. Stephens on the Mobile river in Alabama. Notes that there were three shocks one in the night( possibly around 3:00 am (local time) the next at sunrise and another at 11:00 am( local time. Effect was to shake chickens from their roosts and shake houses considerably. Notes that Indians hunting on the Missouri river and that it shook down trees and rocks in the mountains there.
Transcript
On Sunday night the 15th inst. the earth shook here so as to shake the fowls off their roosts, and made the houses shake very much, again it shook at sun rise and at 11 o'clock next morning, and at the same time the third day after. Accounts are brought in from the nation that several hunting Indians who were lately on the Missouri have returned, and state that the earthquake was felt very sensibly there, that it shook down trees and many rocks of the mountains, and that every thing bore the appearance of an immediate dissolution of the world! We give this as we got it---it may be correct, but the probability is that it is not.
Recommended Citation
"“On Sunday night...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1146.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1146
