Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 sounds like fiction, but it was all too real.
Imagine going about your day, minding your own business, when suddenly, a huge wave of almost black, sludgy liquid comes hurtling towards you. This nightmare sequence became many Bostonites' reality ...
Steve Puleo is the author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. On January 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed, flooding Boston's North End with the sticky substance.
On this day more than a century ago, Boston's most peculiar disaster killed 21 people and injured 150 others. The Great Molasses Flood struck in the city's North End without warning at midday on Jan.
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