“by a gentleman just from Arkansas”
Date
3-18-1812
Newspaper
Argus of Western America
Page and Column
Page 4, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Frankfort , Kentucky
Serial Number
242
Abstract
Felt report from Arkansas for the New Madrid earthquakes. Location is the confluence of the White and Black rivers and the Strawberry creek Black river confluence. Damage is noted to be “coal and sand thrown up from fissure in the earth” from over 500 places. “waters were raised up in a swamp near the Cherokee Village...” Water fell “25 or 30 feet...” near St. Francis(river). Source St. Louis Louisiana Gazette.
Transcript
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. Currin who was traveling with his brother, the latter saved himself on a log--In other places the water fell, and in one instance in a swamp near 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 from Arkansas”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 235.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/235
