Tsunami of Syrup: The 1919 Boston Molasses Catastrophe

A shocking urban disaster where a massive molasses tank burst in Boston's North End on January 15, 1919, killing 21 and injuring 150 in a sticky, devastating wave. Sources "Boston's Great Molasses Flood | Boston Public Library" "The Great Molasses Flood: Labor and the Molasses Flood" (GBH Forum Network) "Great Molasses Flood at 100: How Boston Disaster Made Us Safer" (TIME) "The Great Molasses Flood" "Boston Molasses Flood: The Strangest Disaster in American History" (Geographics)