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Today is the 99th anniversary of the sweetest human tragedy in American history
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:17 pm
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In January of 1919 Purity Distilling Company of Boston, maker of high-grade rum, was working three shifts a day in a vain attempt to outrun national Prohibition. The company’s huge iron tank along the water’s edge at 529 Commercial Street in the North End was filled with more than two million gallons of molasses. Pipes entering the tank were heated to aid the flow of the dense liquid. A solitary vent was the only outlet for the fermenting gases.
It was just after noon on January 15 when the great molasses tank exploded with a ground-shaking blast.
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Those nearby who survived the ensuing catastrophe reported strange noises coming from the tank just before it let go. “It was like someone was on the inside hammering to get out,” said one witness.
A massive tidal wave of molasses swept across Commercial Street, smashing into a house at 6 Copps Hill Terrace, demolishing the building and killing Mrs. Bridget Clougherty.
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Scores of buildings, vehicles and bystanders were swept away. In all, 11 people were killed and more than 50 injured by the initial explosion.
GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD | FAST FACTS
Gallons of molasses that flooded the North End on January 15, 1919: 2.3 million
Estimated height of the wave of molasses: 30 feet
Estimated speed of the wave of molasses: 25 miles per hour
Number of people who died of drowning or suffocation in the molasses flood: 21
Number of people injured: 150
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This post was edited on 1/15/18 at 4:21 pm
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Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:20 pm to Uncle Stu
The blood & molasses mixed together yielded redrum?
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:21 pm to Uncle Stu
How slow do you have to be to be swept up in a molasses tidal wave?
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:23 pm to Uncle Stu
guess they found themselves in a sticky situation
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:23 pm to OysterPoBoy
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How slow do you have to be to be swept up in a molasses tidal wave?
Estimated speed of the wave of molasses: 25 miles per hour
About 24.9 mph.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:24 pm to soccerfüt
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The blood & molasses mixed together yielded redrum?
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:26 pm to Btrtigerfan
You can catch more people with molasses than vinegar.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:27 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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You can catch more people with molasses than vinegar.
Idk. There's a general wave of doucheyness around here which appears to have ensnared a few people.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:27 pm to soccerfüt
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The blood & molasses mixed together yielded redrum?
There was a man trapped beneath the goop trying to swim through it. But the molasses being so thick and dark he couldn’t see. So the bystanders tried to guide him to safety by shouting the direction he should swim...
“SIR! UP!”
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Today is the 99th anniversary of the sweetest human tragedy in American history
How slow do you have to be to be swept up in a molasses tidal wave?
Obviously slower than molasses.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
quote:As slow as Leonard Fournette.
How slow do you have to be to be swept up in a molasses tidal wave?
Posted on 1/15/18 at 4:36 pm to Btrtigerfan
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How slow do you have to be to be swept up in a molasses tidal wave?
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Estimated speed of the wave of molasses: 25 miles per hour
About 24.9 mph.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 5:05 pm to Uncle Stu
Posted on 1/15/18 at 5:28 pm to Uncle Stu
The old phrase “slow as molasses” was proven to be incorrect! 
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:07 pm to Uncle Stu
Have a downvote for making fun of a tragedy.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:58 pm to Flashback
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Have a downvote for making fun of a tragedy.
I'm crushed
not as crushed as the people who were engulfed in metric tons of thick, gooey, sugary, delicious death syrup
but still, crushed
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:02 pm to Yewkindewit
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The old phrase “slow as molasses” was proven to be incorrect!
And it was even in January.
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