“the Earthquake appears to have been felt...”

Date

2-18-1812

Newspaper

Lexington Kentucky Gazette

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 4

Newspaper Location

Lexington, Kentucky

Serial Number

231

Abstract

Report from the Chickasaw Bluffs stating that “mischief done in that neighborhood by this phenomenon of nature to have been considerable.” It also reports that Indians had gone to the mountains northwest of the are and had felt the quake there and returned home due to fears for their family and if it was the end of the world to die with them. Notes that rocks fell from the mountains and that trees snapped. Report from a Natchez newspaper, title unknown.

Transcript

The Earthquake appears to have been felt in every part of the United States from which we have had an opportunity of any information. Some gentlemen just arrived from the Chickasaw Bluffs, on the Mississippi, state that the mischief done in that neighborhood by this phenomenon of nature to have been considerable. They further state that previous to their leaving the Bluffs, seven Indians had arrived there from the northwest, that had gone out to the mountains, to hunt, in great haste, who rode day and night to get into their families, believing by the tremendous shocks that were felt by them, that general destruction was about to take place, and determined to die with their relatives in the vortex; and that when they left their camps, the mountains appeared to be tumbling in pieces; large trees were snapped off at their roots and dashed together in the greatest disorder-rocks as large as houses were thrown into the vallies from the tops of mountains; and in many places the earth appeared to be much heated, and in every direction were to be seen evident signs of volcanic eruptions. The Indians being well known at the Bluffs the above relation was credited by every person. From the above and other information we are led to believe that the source of the Earthquake must be some where on this continent, a little to the north of west. It is said the shocks were not felt in New-Orleans. Natches Paper

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