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 ...
On January 15, 1919, a storage tank holding 2.3 million US gallons of molasses suddenly burst, claiming 21 lives and injuring around 150 people. The molasses formed a wave up to 25 feet high and moved ...
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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