**Shampore** – Cocopah Indian, witness to the 1891 earthquake and tidal wave.
He was interviewed alongside Miguel, another Cocopah, and their account described the violent shocks that threw people to the ground and opened fissures in the earth [1][2].
Sources
- A correspondent recently had an interview… (1891)A correspondent recently had an interview with Miguel and Shampore, two sturdy Cocopah
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-08-14 (1891)path nation that a new kind of danger had befallen their people. The force of the first shock was exceed- ingly violent, and increased with intensified force until the fourth and supposedly the last, when ev…