What does anybody know about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919???

Question

If you have never heard of it, look it up! It really happened. I was wondering if there was anybody who heard stories first hand of what happened.

Answer 1

Yes - now you made me want to look it up again....



"huge storage tank of molasses exploded without warning, and caused a wave of molasses and debris to travel down Commercial Street at 35 miles per hour. About twenty-one people were killed, and 150 people were injured. The value of all property destroyed was around $1,000,000 [or $12.4 million current dollars]. The tank was five stories high, and contained 2.3 million gallons of molasses. This event became known as the Boston Molasses Flood"

Answer 2

It took over 87,000 guy hours to do away with the molasses from the cobblestone streets, theaters, companies, vehicles, and properties.[4] The harbor ran brown till summer season time. indoors sight electorate presented a type-action lawsuit, between the 1st held in Massachusetts, against u.s. corporation Alcohol corporation, which had presented Purity Distilling in 1917. in spite of the corporate's tries to declare that the tank have been blown up through employing anarchists (with the aid of actuality lots of the alcohol produced replaced into for use in making munitions) it finally paid out $six hundred,000 in out-of-courtroom docket settlements (a minimum of $6.6 million in 2005 money).[5] usa corporation Alcohol did no longer rebuild the tank. the valuables grew to advance suited right into a exterior for the Boston extra valuable Railway (predecessor to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) and is on the on the spot the area of a city-owned baseball container. The smell supposedly lingered for some years; in accordance to indoors sight folklore, molasses left from this disaster can although be smelled on heat days.[a million]

Answer 3

yeah it was a very sticky situation the first 30 days after the flood went down...