“By a gentleman just from Arkansas...”
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.
Recommended Citation
"“By a gentleman just from Arkansas...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 365.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/365
