“the Steam boat...”
Date
2-12-1812
Newspaper
Liberty Hall
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 4
Newspaper Location
Cincinnati, Ohio
Serial Number
501
Abstract
Report from Natchez of what the steam boat New Orleans observed after the December 16,1811 earthquake.
Transcript
NATCHES, JAN. 1. The Steam-Boat built at Pittsburgh, so long expected here, arrived on Monday evening last with several passengers, after a very remarkably short passage. This Boat it is said, is intended to be a regular packet from this place to New-Orleans, and will make a trip down and back in from 5 to 7 days. We have conversed with a gentleman who came passenger in the Steam-Boat lately arrived here and are informed that the Earthquake, shocks of which were felt here a week or two since, has done great injury to the settlements on the Ohio and Mississippi, by throwing down houses, chimnies, &c. and in one or two instances, islands in the Mississippi, of considerable magnitude had been sunk or destroyed; that the river on both sides fell into a prodigious extent; and at one place about 300 acres caved in of a solid body. He also informs that the western side of the river was the most affected-and that the shocks lasted about twelve days, with intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes.
Recommended Citation
"“the Steam boat...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 493.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/493
