“The Steam Boat”
Date
3-2-1812
Newspaper
Mirror of the Times
Page and Column
Page 1, Column 2 and 3
Newspaper Location
Augusta, Georgia
Serial Number
637
Abstract
Report that the steam boat New Orleans arrival at Natchez, and what was observed of the New Madrid earthquakes
Transcript
NATCHEZ JANUARY, 1. The Steam-Boat built at Pitsburgh, so long expected here, arrived on Monday evening last with several passengers, after a very remarkable 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 banks of the river on both sides fell in to 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. 624.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/624
