Killer Molasses!
posted by Pop Tart at
6:14 AM
On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank in Boston exploded with great force and flooded the streets with a huge wave of molasses that killed 21 people, crumpled the steel support of an elevated train, and knocked over a fire station.
Labels: 1910s, history, old photographs
2 Comments:
Crazy!
Thanks doll,
The Glamorous Housewife
Oh my goodness! That is so strange, because I have photos from the 1940s of a truck carrying molasses that crashed into a house - you can see the stuff dripping down the outside walls :O I bought the photos because the accident took place in the tiny town in which I live (in Pennsylvania).
Who knew molasses was so great a threat?!
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