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ft EARTHQUAKE.c Ar Nnv Madrid, (Louifiaoa T«rritlt;rs | ry) the {hocks have been uncommonly violent— throwing down ci imnics and 8 ; houfes, apd compelling oec-third of the 3 i- inhabit ants fo if niovc. from' the placej !'to tl:€ aojacept. hiils, and the remainder s to'encamp in tents in open fields. The eerrb ^as foconvulfed, to render it difficult for 6De'Yd~krcpfheir perpfolt;} jvcolaY pi.fuion; the morion being eftr jawed at about 12 istches toahd fro. j 1 ne inocK.fi were sccotxpaiiifd Wirh a I parrida* knefs.a ncmend us notfe, Sct-f- *u I, j have been witoefled, in ail, which have' ' fptlr and cracked rl e earth iu an hundred places in the neighborhood. Du*ring {he violent fh tck*, the people* by tlieir yells 3r d fhriths, difceveuog their -extreme alarm, and upon one of th-fe cccaficns, a lariy was known to faint Sc never recover ! The face of the country below, about Little Prairie,-has ap rxiTyft ect ifety'cltaojfeil 5 larp Takes hv-in,j berrv foni'ertrd into dry land, a-nd fields into lakes—-the banks of the river” fallen “in—mil Is cJfcftroyed, and ~Thc~ err*b cracked in every dirtion, The' St, Friticis « as, at qoe time very low— at another oyerfioWfog' thcJurrotihdiDgcount ry.- ' At Lf^jlc _ ir aj r}c,_V be _J\fl lt;K _(jfTippi is fa id to. have formed an eddy and-pr-efented a rtrrogVde cpotiup, and~ in t.c or 2,0 minutes aficr^arcfs resuiu-^ “ J XD.i.ezfiifw.ailTdwed pp in «tie of thole apertures in the cacti’,' o^e of whom only made his efcape, who ilates, p^t this^a/amr ; *ry wa5-fore old by Sna P o* . J— pbet, for the deRniition of the * btres,fy-xinjen Statcjmam —
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Gettysburg Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Feb 12, 1812
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