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 ...

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.

What happened during the Great Molasses Flood in Boston. On Jan. 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses violently erupted from a 50-foot-high tank on Commercial Street.

Anarchists, Horses, Heroes: 12 Things You Didn’t Know about the Great Boston Molasses Flood. The weirder and more notable aspects of the disaster, via Dark Tide author Stephen Puleo.

On Jan. 15, 1919, a tank of molasses burst, releasing a thick, sugary tsunami down the streets of Boston's North End. This "Great Molasses Flood" killed 21 people, injured 150, and had effects far ...

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.

The ruins of a tank containing 2 1/2 million gallons of molasses lie in a heap after an eruption that hurled trucks against buildings and crumpled houses in the North End of Boston, on Jan. 15, 1919.

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.

Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919, one of the city’s most bizarre and deadly disasters. Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, as many Boston workers were taking their lunch break, ...

A Boston-based folk band, appropriately called The Great Molasses Flood, says it plans to record a live album dedicated to the flood during the anniversary on Tuesday, January 15, at Cambridge’s ...