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, .........‘V V«- EARTHQUAKE. . aSeveral person* passed through T^exington h on the 27th who were near New-Madrid on s the 7th oil One of the gentlemen (Mr. Vert- p ner) stats, that the Earthquake which ' occur- jj red during tl»£ night of the 7th, occasioned his v barge, with 600 barrels of flour, besides otl»*r t« articles, to sink and the whole was,lost; ano- fI tier gentleman whose name is not r^cejected, ■ stated, that daring the convulsion the b^nk of * the river just below New-Madrid caved ro, and f, 'let loose his boat; about the same ti pie there, \ fi was a back current in the trivfcr which dfove n the hoat several miles up a small bayou, land n during the convulsion, the motion of theboat * was so violent as to stave many of the barrels t, of flour in the boat—Tbe;. quaking continued x three days, when this gentlepan thinking|it k prudent not to go further, left his property and k returned. i( ^ ^Both the' gentleme n sta te if*a t ‘ somuobst ni c - * (tion had presented itself in therivet*something y like'a rapids or falls, which greatly endanger h the navigation—Also that the buildings in * New Madrid are greatly damaged—Much of the land round fibfwit was/Under water, anti the few remaining inhabitants were encamped out —That the land in inntpnerable plac es is opened in large fissures—aid the inhabitant* of the ! town of New-Madrid entertain the opinion that the ground on which thetowfti stood had sunk jabout' fifteen feet a few moments after the rfirst violent shock, it rose about'ten feet. *They heard «f many boats being lost, and c 'that tfte land where the town of Little Prairie * stands, is sixteen feet under wator. ,J In addition to the above we have been fa- lt;▼oared with the perusal of several;letters front * near New-Madrid, of the date of Feb. 21, *which confirm the whole of the above particulars. Thbaq letters can be depenfied on, they state the number of boats lost of which accounts -*: are already received, to amount to 50-togetl,er with a number of lives, There is a certainty 1 l that a bar composed of stone coal, burnt sub- [ stance, .C. has been thrown up. directly under , the bed of the river tslgud No. fi, from the {J junctiomof the Ohio to the Mississippi is entirely sunk—indeed the effects already ascertained are terrible—the inundations are progressing through the low lands, and it would appear r that there had not been vet any volcanic enip- lt;(fan sufficient to' draw off the eause-The shocks * are now running*//* the river and through what * is called the American bottom, uc. c. / *p\ /.. Reporter,
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Liberty Hall
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Mar 18, 1812
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