Over 106 years ago, Boston's North End faced one of the most bizarre and tragic disasters in history. On January 15, 1919, a storage tank holding 2.3 million US gallons of molasses suddenly burst, ...
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.
Twenty-one people were killed and 150 injured when a giant tank filled with molasses exploded in Boston on January 15, 1919. The 15m-high tank was filled with an estimated 8700 cubic metres of ...