The Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919

A couple of weeks ago was the anniversary of The Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919. It’s one of those historical events that is so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable. But it happened.

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oliver b's picture
oliver b on February 4, 2004 - 20:40 Permalink

Amazing. The journalist did a good job with the recounting too. It was so much like being there I wasn’t even tempted to laugh at the superficial absurdity of it.

Daniel Von Fange's picture
Daniel Von Fange on February 5, 2004 - 03:39 Permalink

Ouch!

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Graphite on May 7, 2004 - 21:00 Permalink

Granite is cool