num_pages: 273
description: This edition is no longer in print. Please check  9780807078006 for the most recent edition.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 station. 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.
language: English
title: Dark Tide, Old Edition/Out of Print: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
titlecomplete: Dark Tide, Old Edition/Out of Print: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
genres: Book Club, 20th Century, History, American History, Historical, Tragedy, American, Adult, Nonfiction, Food
ratings_count: 4536
places: Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Beacon Press