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True Story of the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Steamboat, and Tecumseh's Comet. The forgotten earthquakes of America, and a warning of earthquakes to come...

In 1810 Fulton commissions the first steamboat to be built at Pittsburgh to sail the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The steamboat, New Orleans, was nearing completion on October 6th when a bright comet appeared in the early morning sky in the fall of 1811.

On October 20th the New Orleans began its maiden voyage with Captain Nicholas Roosevelt, his wife pregnant Lidia, their daughter, dog, and servants and crew of twelve.

The next day they stopped at Wheeling West Virginia. The captain charged the townsfolk 25 cents to come aboard the steamboat for a tour.

About October 27th, the New Orleans arrived near Cincinnati Ohio. People were curious but when when it departed, the Cincinnatians thought the river current would prevent the steamboat from ever coming back.

Soon the steamboat arrived at Louisville Kentucky for provisions and coal. There on October 30th Lidia gave birth to a boy.

Because the water level was too low to pass over the rapids of the Ohio River Falls, the captain took the New Orleans back upstream to surprise the people of Cincinnati. For the next month, people were charged a dollar for rides up and down the river.

In early December 1811, after the Ohio river level rose they chanced transversing the Falls, new baby and all, and continued on toward the Mississippi River.

On December 15th the New Orleans stopped at a coal outcropping near Owensboro Kentucky. Very early the next morning, they heard terrible sounds and a felt shaking aboard the steamboat. It was the first great earthquake of the New Madrid Fault.

That morning they continued on to Henderson Kentucky, where no chimneys were left standing. They visited their friends, the painter John James Audubon and his wife Lucy.

The river journey resumed, but during multiple tremors shaking the land, the hazards of falling trees, collapsing river banks, and disappearing islands. At times the river would actually flow backwards.

Sometimes the ship pilot was confused because the river landscape had been so changed. The sky was filled with a haze and the land looked like ocean waves.

They reached the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers called the "Point." The few buildings there were in ruins.

At various times they would see Indians along the riverbanks and in canoes. The Indians thought this "fire canoe" with the churning paddle caused the earthquakes and the belching smoke put debris into the water and sky.

Sometimes, Indian canoes raced the steamboat, but our power prevailed. The Indians were influenced also by the sign of Tecumseh's Comet, but now fading. His name, Tecumseh, means "shooting star."

On December 19th, they approached New Madrid Missouri on the Mississippi River. The town was destroyed, but they didn't stop because of fear the steamboat would be overwhelmed by the fleeing people.

They saw many wrecked and abandoned boats and realized it was an undoubted miracle of God that the steamboat had survived and kept going.

Once they tied up at an island for the night only to find that most of the island had disappeared into the river the next morning.

On December 22nd at the mouth of the Saint Francis River, the British naturalist John Bradbury told them it was utter destruction inland.

Their harrowing journey was nearing its end when they arrived at Natchez Mississippi on December 30th, and learned that it had only been shaken with tremors. And on December 31st, the steamboat's engineer was married to Lidia's maid there.

On January 10, 1812 they finally arrived safely in the steamboat's namesake, New Orleans, after a 1900 miles journey.

But, that was not the end of the destruction, for there was another large earthquake on January 23, 1812 and the largest still on February 7th, which was felt as far away as Maine, and with hundreds of tremors in between.

On October 31, 1895 there was another large earthquake centered at Charleston Missouri which caused widespread destruction throughout the Mississippi valley.

In recent days, many small tremors are shaking the areas around the New Madrid Fault. This begs the question: What does the future hold for this region?

In 1973, David Wilkerson had a vision of tremendous earthquakes striking the United States. He wrote two books documenting what he saw: "The Vision," 1973, and "Racing Toward Judgment," 1976. You would do well to lookup these books and consider what he had to say!

Nevertheless, we must take the Lord's promise, with a warning, to heart: "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" - 2 Chronicles 7:14.