| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| April 16, 1864 |
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| Destruction of salt |
| About four hundred sacks of
Virginia
salt, belonging to the State of Georgia, or parties in that State, stored by the Southside Railroad
Company in the warehouses on the lower wharf at Petersburg,
Va., were destroyed by the flood on Tuesday night. Each sack contained
about two bushels or one hundred pounds of salt, and the loss will
reach between $10,000 and $15,000. A large quantity of salt which was
stored in these buildings was saved by raising it above the water
mark, and piling it upon wood carried there for the purpose. The first
one or two tiers were almost entirely dissolved in the muddy water,
and the empty sacks only remained to tell the tale of the loss. |
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