“Extract of a letter....”

Authors

Date

5-1-1812

Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Page and Column

Page 2, Column 3

Newspaper Location

Raleigh, North Carolina

Serial Number

662

Abstract

Felt report for earthquake at Caracas, Venezuela

Transcript

Extract of a letter received by the schooner Independence, from Laguira. "It is not within the compass of my ability to describe to you the misery of these people; fear & despair, grief & ruin, have completely overwhelmed them. Parents have escaped, with the loss of their children; children with the loss of their parents, and very few without the loss of their property. Already five hundred persons have been found, and the probability is, that a greater number still remain buried beneath the ruins. The destruction at Caraccas is much greater; 2500 bodies have been thrown upon the funeral pile, and burned already, and it is supposed, that from 5 to 10,000 souls are lost-Out of 40 Churches in that place two convents only remain standing. Such is the lamentable situation of these two places, that it will be a long time before they can be reinstated. No business of any nature is doing. All the Americans here will go to Porto Cavello."--ib.

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