Dark tide
the great Boston molasses flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo
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Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End.
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Jan 15, 2019, Beacon Press
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080707800X 9780807078006
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
September 16, 2004, Beacon Press
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0807050210 9780807050217
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Dark tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919
2003, Beacon Press
in English
0807050202 9780807050200
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. 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. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire stateion. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster. - Back cover.
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