The Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919

Peter Rukavina

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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Submitted by oliver b on

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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.

Submitted by Daniel Von Fange on

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Ouch!

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