“the Steam boat built at Pittsburgh...”
Date
1-28-1812
Newspaper
Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Page and Column
Page 2, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Serial Number
229
Abstract
Report from Natchez, Mississippi of the arrival of the steamboat and the reports from it of the New Madrid earthquakes. Reports that islands sank into the river, the west bank of the river was greatly damaged, river banks on both sides of the river fell in. the quakes lasted for 12 days with intervals of 15 to twenty minutes between them.
Transcript
NATCHES, JAN. 1. The Steam-Boat built at Pittsburgh, so long expected here, arrived on Monday evening last with several passengers after a very remarkable short passage. This Boat it is said, is intended to be a regular packet from this place to New Orleans, and will make a trip down and back in from 5 to 7 days. We have conversed with a gentleman who came passenger in the Steam Boat lately arrived here and are informed that the Earthquake, shocks of which were felt here a week or two since, has done great injury to the settlements on the Ohio and Mississippi, by throwing down houses chimnies, &c. and in one or two instances, islands in the Mississippi, of considerable magnitude had been sunk or destroyed that the banks of the river on both sides fell in to a prodigious extent, and at one place about 300 acres caved in of a solid body. He also informs that the western side of the river was the most affected-and that the shocks lasted about twelve days, with intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes.
Recommended Citation
"“the Steam boat built at Pittsburgh...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 222.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/222
