“A rumor has gone abroad...”
Date
5-19-1812
Newspaper
Louisiana Gazette
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Serial Number
935
Abstract
Information about the blocking of the Mississippi river by the New Madrid earthquakes. Notes that the earthquakes had increased the amount of sawyers and snags in the river but they had passed and navigation was back to normal. Good short article on river navigation. Possibility exists that article was an attempt to stimulate navigation to New Orleans down the Mississippi river.
Transcript
A rumour has gone abroad, that the nation of the Mississippi river was very [unreadable] obstructed by the late shocks of a quake, which will have a tendency, no doubt, to prevent many persons from ascending the river this season. It is [unreadable] thar for a time, the sawyers and [unreadable] in the river were in three-fold numbers to what they ever were known before; [unreadable] from a source extraordinary circumstance, the most of those sawyers and [unreadable] have disappeared, and the river at that time, and for a month past has been [unreadable] by the oldest and best [unreadable] boatmen to be better than it has [unreadable] for a number of years back.
Recommended Citation
"“A rumor has gone abroad...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 909.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/909
