“A gentleman from Tennessee....”
Date
1-27-1812
Newspaper
The Times
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 3
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
382
Abstract
Report from Tennessee refuting the John C, Edwards account. Also notes that the earthquake was felt in Hawkins county but no injury was sustained.
Transcript
A gentleman from Tennessee, who passed the Warm Springs on the 22d ult. assures us that the account published in the Courier on Saturday last, from the Raleigh Star, of the effects produced by the Earthquake of the 16th of that month, near that place, is, in part at least incorrect. The Painted Rock, which is represented in that account to have been thrown from its base into the road leading to the western country, by which the passage of travellers was obstructed, was resting very quietly in its natural bed on the 22d, at which time our informant passed it;--and he doubts not that the first news which the people of that neighborhood will receive of its having been removed by the Earthquake, will be in the receipt of the Raleigh paper containing the wonderful account. The gentleman who furnishes us with this correction, resides in Hawkins County, Tennessee, where the Earthquake of the 16th was felt, but from which no injury was sustained. Courier.
Recommended Citation
"“A gentleman from Tennessee....”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 375.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/375
