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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters used to be playing cards in Boston’s North End once they heard an immense crash. It used to be like roaring surf, one in every of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said some other. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to seem out a window-“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!”

A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The choice of dead wasn’t known for days. It could be years before a landmark court battle made up our minds who used to be accountable for the disaster.

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