Not Your Century

1919: Boston Molasses Flood

01.15.2020 - By San Francisco ChroniclePlay

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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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