“The Earthquake”

Date

1-27-1812

Newspaper

Boston Independent Chronicle

Page and Column

Page 2, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Boston, Massachusetts.

Serial Number

162

Abstract

Felt reports from Dayton, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky of the effect of the December 16, 1811 earthquake.

Transcript

THE EARTHQUAKE. Dayton, (Ohio.) Dec. 19.--On Monday and Tuesday last, the inhabitants of this place were kept in continual alarm by repeated shocks of an earthquake. The last, and by far the severest shock, was felt between 2 and 3 o'clock on Monday Morning. It was so severe as to arouse almost every person from their slumbers. Some left their houses in a fright, and all were terrified at the annual phenomenon.-The horses and cattle were equally alarmed, and the fowls left the rooms in great consternation. It was not preceded by the usual token of a rumbling noise. The earth must have been in a constant tremor on Monday and Tuesday. A surveyor went out on Monday for the purpose of surveying a road in the neighborhood of this place, but being unable to get the needle to settle, he was obliged to desist.-He tried it again on Tuesday with the same effect. LEXINGTON, (Ken.) Dec. 17 _ On yesterday morning about half after two o'clock was experienced a very severe shock from an Earthquake, at this place; it lasted about 2 minutes-about half after 7 it again was felt, but not in such an alarming degree. Nature appears to have been prodigal in the exhibition of her phenomenal during the present year-a fiery Comet has for many months appeared in continual view.-Tornadoes have ravaged the continent from Maine to Georgia.-The Ocean has been the subject of Volcanic terror; and new Islands have arisen therefrom. The great scale in which Nature is operating should be a solemn admobilition to men, (or those animals in the shape of men) to abandon the pitiful, groveling, schemes of venality and corruption, in the prosecution of which they are so ardently engaged. An honest heart, alone, can view those great events with composure. The political swindler of reputation, must feel severely the visitation of conscience at such momentous periods, when nature appears in spasmodic fury, no longer to tolerate the mortal turpitude of man.

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