A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.
It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster..
The number of dead wasn\'t known for days.
It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station.
A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window--Oh my God he shouted to the other men, Run A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of Molasses had just collapsed on Boston\'s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of Molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour.
Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another.
It was like roaring surf, one of them said later.
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston\'s North End when they heard a tremendous crash.
A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it
