Reports of Church Bells Ringing

Following the NMSZ Earthquakes of 1811-1812

Kaskaskia S. Il, from Brown, S. (1906). "Old Kaskaskia Days and Ways"

"…the steeple of the church bent like a reed; the old bell rang with tremulous strokes like some unseen demon pulling on the bell cord…"

Herculaneum MO, from Mitchill, Samuel L. (1814). "A Detailed Narrative of the Earthquakes..." p. 291

"...cradles rocked and church bells rang"

Cahokia Il, from Reynolds, John (1855). "My Own Times" report near East St. Louis

"…the church bell sounded by the agitation of the building"

Natchitoches from Sargent, Winthrop (1815). "Account of Several Shocks of an Earthquake...."

"In Charleston, South Carolina, and at Natchitoches or Nagadoches the bells in their church steeples were rung by the motion of the buildings"

Charleston SC, from Dean, Gilbert (1936). "Stories of the Great Quake" –Nashville Banner, 1936–

" St Phillip’s church– ~10 sec."