CONTENTS xxi CHAPTER XIV NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE Time and Area — Unique Among Earthquakes — Contemporary Accounts Mentioned — The Scene Described — Direction of the Shocks — Size of Affected Area — Character OF Disturbances — Small Loss of Life Explained — A Death from Fright — Persons Drowned — Appearance of the Air — Vapors — Lights and Glows — Earth Changes Fissures — Lignite — Areas of Surface Raised — Sunk-Lands — Observations Made by Lyell — Distribution of Sunk-Lands^Epfect on Timber — Expulsion of Material from the Earth — Water-Sand — Sand Blows — Sand-Sloughs — Sinks • — Suggested Causes — Contemporary Accounts — Mrs. Eliza Bryan — Long^Bradbury — Flint — Faux — LeSieur — Col. John Shaw- — Letter op an Unknown Writer — Long — Nuttall — Flagg — Former Drainage as Described by LeSieur — Government Assistance to Suf- ferers — The New Madrid Claims — DeLisle vs. State of Missouri — Loss of Popula- tion. 212 CHAPTER XV STATEHOOD ATTAINED Petition for Organization as a State — Bill to Organize a State Government — The Slavery Controversy — The Tallmadge Amendment — Debate Over the Amendment — Deadlock op the Two Houses — The Missouri Compromise — Feeling in the State — The Constitutional Convention — Members from the Southeast — The Constitution in Congress — Further Opposition to Admission — The Debate — Clay's Compromise — The Solemn Public Act — The President's Proclamation Admitting the State — Pe- culiarities op the Transaction — State Boundaries — Missouri — Arkansas — Wolf Island. 234 SECTION IV CHAPTER XVI GENERAL DEVELOPMENT Analysis op Population, 1820-1830 — Comparative Census Table, 1820-1860 — French and German Elements — Period op Town Growth. 247 CHAPTER XVII STE. GENEVIEVE AND ST. MARYS. Shipping Center of Mineral Region — Ste. Genevieve-Iron Mountain Plank Road— 150th Anniversary Celebrated — -U. S. Senators from Ste. Genevieve — Ste. Gene- vieve of Today — St. Marys. 251 CHAPTER XVIII CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY TOWNS Cape Girardeau a Steamboat Town — Incorporated as a City — Prosperity After the War — State Normal School Located — Stage of Stagnation — Really Remarkable Progress — Founding of Jackson — First Institutions and Persons — Civil Government — Pres- ent County Seat — Burpordville — Appleton — Pocahontas and Oak Ridge. 2.')6
