The Great Molasses Flood: Boston’s Sticky, Deadly Disaster
The air in Boston’s North End on January 15, 1919, was unseasonably warm for January. A strange, sweet scent hung heavy, a prelude to a disaster that would engulf the neighborhood in a wave of sticky, brown death. It was an ordinary Tuesday, and the Purity Distilling Company’s colossal molasses tank, an imposing 50-foot-tall cylinder … Read more