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Ã2004., Beacon Press Call No: HI-INT 363.1 PUL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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c2012., Juvenile, Charlesbridge Call No: 363.17 KOPS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the 1919 explosion of a molasses tank in Boston that killed twenty-one people and buried the neighborhood in molasses. Discusses what caused the explosion, and its aftermath. Includes archival photographs.
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2012., Charlesbridge Call No: HI-INT 363.1 KOP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the January 1919 molasses tank explosion in Boston, Massachusetts, seeks to uncover why the tank blew up and who was to blame through primary sources and archival photographs that show the extent of the damage.
