“Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kaskaskia to the Editor of the Frankfort Argus, dated January 7th, 1812
Date
2-22-1812
Newspaper
Reporter
Page and Column
Page 4, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Serial Number
276
Abstract
Account from Kaskaskia, Illinois of the damage at Little Prairie and New Madrid due to the December 16, 1811 earthquake. Describes Little Prairie as “sunk” and that New Madrid had fissures “miles in length”. At Kaskaskia “several violent shocks have been felt in this place.”
Transcript
FRANKFORT, Jan. 12. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kaskaskia to the Editor of the Frankfort, Argus, dated January 7th, 1812. "I have just conversed with a gentleman from New Madrid, who states, that he saw in that place, many fissures in the earth for miles in length. The Little Prairie, about twelve leagues below this place, is actually sunk.-Some of the buildings are thrown upon their sides, and others covered with water up to their roofs. Other accounts from below state that the country is much sunk and split. Several violent shocks have been felt in this place."
Recommended Citation
"“Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kaskaskia to the Editor of the Frankfort Argus, dated January 7th, 1812" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 269.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/269
