[JustAmy]

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A plaque entitled "Boston Molasses Flood", reads:

On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank at 529 Commercial Street exploded under pressure, killing 21 people.
A 40-foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings and inundated the neighborhood.
Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm temperatures contributed to the disaster.

For more information, see Boston Molasses Disaster

Did you have pancakes with molasses fpr breakfast?

[fewz]

Drowning in molasses has got to be a bad way to go.

[Lady Jag]

Though he wasn’t there, my grampa remembered that. It was horrible though it sounds kind of funny.

It is true that people say they can still get a whiff of molasses on Commercial Street and Atlantic Ave.

More from Wiki:

The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (56 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft² (200 kPa). The molasses wave was of sufficient force to break the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway’s Atlantic Avenue structure and lift a train off the tracks. Nearby, buildings were swept off their foundations and crushed. Several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 feet. As described by author Stephen Puleo,

Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. Here and there struggled a form — whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings — men and women — suffered likewise.

The Boston Globe reported that people “were picked up by a rush of air and hurled many feet.” Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air. A truck was picked up and hurled into Boston Harbor. Approximately 150 were injured; 21 people and several horses were killed — some were crushed and drowned by the molasses. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast.