IN SWEET TURNED DEADLY: THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

On a sultry January morning in 1919, the unthinkable happened in Boston's North End. A massive tank overflowing with sweet molasses ruptured with a roar, unleashing a wall of Great Molasses Flood thick, brown goo that consumed the streets below. Dozens of people became victims in the catastrophic flood, crushed by the unexpected force of the molass