“By a gentleman just from Arkansas...”

Authors

Date

2-22-1812

Newspaper

Louisiana Gazette

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 3

Newspaper Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Serial Number

372

Abstract

Account by traveler on the Arkansas and White river of the damage done there by the New Madrid earthquakes. possibly the February 7, 1812 earthquake. Very detailed on damage. Notes sand blows on the White river. Damage near Cherokee Village due to change in water level being raised enough to drown a man named Currin. Rise of water levels at the St. Francis and the sinking of the ground on the Strawberry river near the Black river.

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 300 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 it rose in a swamp near he St. Francis 25 or 30 feet; near Strawberry a branch of Black river, an eminence containing 1 1/2 acres sunk down and formed a pond.

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