The Boston Molasses Flood – 21 people killed in Boston streets by tidal wave of Molasses (1919)
// November 30th, 2016 // No Comments » // Odd Happenings

The five-story tall steel tank at 529 Commercial Street in Boston held 2.3 million gallons of molasses weighing an astonishing 26 million pounds. At 12:30 in the afternoon, persons in the area heard a “sound like a rumble” and the ground shook. The Purity Distilling Company molasses tank had burst, releasing millions of gallons of […]