In Sweet Turned Deadly: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

On a sultry January morning in 1919, the unthinkable happened in Boston's North End. A massive reservoir overflowing with sweet molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown syrup that engulfed the streets below. Dozens of people were caught in the catastrophic flood, buried under the unexpected impact of the molasses. The sc

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