“Natchez..”
Date
2-11-1812
Newspaper
Petersburg Intelligencer
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Petersburg, Virginia
Serial Number
1029
Abstract
Report from Natchez, Mississippi for the arrival of the steam boat New Orleans. Notes damage on the river including cave ins, missing islands, house damage, notes that the steamboat will travel there to New Orleans and that the boat will be a success.
Transcript
NATCHEZ, January 1. The Steam Boat built at Pittsburg, 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 to 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, on 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
"“Natchez..”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 999.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/999
