“by a gentleman just form Arkansas...”
Date
3-24-1812
Newspaper
Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Page and Column
Page 1, Column 5
Newspaper Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Serial Number
234
Abstract
Brief account from Arkansas of damage from New Madrid earthquakes. Waters were raised near a location called Cherokee village. Water rose in the St. Francis river “25 or 30 feet”. On a branch of the Black river near Strawberry “an eminence containing about 1 1/2 acres sunk down and formed a pond”
Transcript
ST. LOUIS, FEBRUARY 22. By a gentleman just from Arkansas, by way of White river, we learn that the earthquake was violent in that quarter, that in upwards of 500 places he observed coal and sand thrown up from fissures in the earth, that the waters raised in a swamp near the Cherokee village, so as to drown a Mr. Corrin who was traveling with his brother, the latter saved himself on a log.-In other places the water fell, and in one instance it rose in a swamp near the St. Francis, 25 or 30 feet; near Strawberry, a branch of Black river, an eminence containing about 1 1-2 acres sunk down and formed a pond.
Recommended Citation
"“by a gentleman just form Arkansas...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 227.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/227
