BOSTON'S TRAGIC MOLASSES INCIDENT OF '19

Boston's Tragic Molasses Incident of '19

On a blustery afternoon in that fateful year, disaster befell Boston. A massive reservoir filled with sticky, sweet molasses ruptured sending a wall of of the thick liquid rushing through the streets. The impact was catastrophic, flattening buildings and entombing residents in a treacly mire. Hundreds of people were killed, and many more sustaine

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