“Dayton (O. ) Dec. 19”
Date
1-30-1812
Newspaper
Natchez Gazette
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Natchez, Mississippi
Serial Number
468
Abstract
Short report from Dayton, Ohio on the December 16, 1811 earthquake,
Transcript
DAYTON, (O.) Dec. 19. On Monday and Tuesday last, the inhabitants of this place were kept in continual alarm by repeated shocks of an Earthquake. The first, and by far, the severest shock, was felt between two and three o'clock on Monday morning. It was so severe as to arouse almost every person in town from his slumbers. Some left their houses in affright, and all were terrified at the unusual phenomenon. The horses and cattle were equally alarmed, and the fowls left their roosts in great consternation. It was not preceded by the usual token of a rumbling noise. The Earth must have been in a constant tremor on Monday, and Tuesday. A surveyor went out on Monday for the purpose of surveying a road in the neighbourhood of this place, but being unable to get the needle to settle, he was obliged to desist. He tried it again on Tuesday with the same effect.
Recommended Citation
"“Dayton (O. ) Dec. 19”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 460.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/460
