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January 15, 2019

Great Molasses Flood: 100 years ago today

  • 21 people were killed when a steel tank broke sending a 25-foot wave of molasses into a Boston neighborhood.
    • By WILLIAM J. KOLE
    Associated Press

    BOSTON — Slow as molasses? This treacle didn't trickle. It was a sticky, deadly tsunami that flattened an entire Boston neighborhood within seconds.

    On Tuesday, the city marks the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood.


     
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