Great Molasses Flood: 21 people killed by a tidal wave of syrup in Boston on this day 100 years ago Company concerned was ordered to pay equivalent of $9.2 million to flood victims and families ...

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston resulted in a lawsuit that used expert witnesses for the first time and was the catalyst for new regulations governing architects and engineers.

This week marks 100 years since an unimaginable disaster struck in Boston, when millions of gallons of molasses burst out of a giant, rickety tank by the harbor and gushed into the North End ...

Run!’: The day a deadly wave of molasses tore through Boston A century ago, a giant tank filled with syrup ruptured in one of Boston’s busiest neighborhoods. The flood killed 21 and hurt 150.

From the archive The Great Molasses Flood was Boston’s strangest disaster In 1919, an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through the North End.

On Jan. 15, 1919, a 2-million-gallon tank of molasses ruptured in Boston, killing 21 people. The 100th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood is this week.

A molasses tank collapsed and caused widespread damage in Boston's North End in January 1919. The incident is commonly referred to as the Great Molasses Flood. Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

For more than a century, stories of the tragic industrial accident have wafted through Boston like the molasses some claim to still smell in the city.

On a brisk winter day, Stephen Puleo, author of "Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919," gestured toward the spot where a tank in Boston's North End burst, releasing a tsunami of hot ...