1919: Boston Molasses Flood
Jan 15, 2020•7 min
Episode description
Nothing so sweet — and so ridiculous-sounding — has ever been so deadly. A storage tank bursts, sending a 15-foot wave of the sticky stuff through the streets of the North End at 35 mph, killing 21.
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