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January 15, 1919 was an unusually warm day in Boston, a welcome change from the typically cold temperatures Bostonians had experienced in the previous days. A little after 12:30 pm, the residents of the city's North End neighborhood were going about their usual routines when all of the sudden they felt the ground shake, followed by a loud rumbling roar, as though the train had gone off the tracks. Then, without warning, a wave of molasses—reportedly fifty feet high—flooded the neighborhood with more than 2.5 million gallons of syrup, destroying buildings, toppling the nearby elevated train line, and killing twenty-one people.One of the lesser told and remembered stories in Boston's history, the great molasses flood of 1919 caused untold damage to one of the city's oldest neighborhoods and injured more than 150 people, in addition to the twenty-one dead. Yet for an event so remarkable and strange, it is still unknown precisely what caused the Purity Distilling Company's molasses storage tank to burst and dump its contents across the North End, making it one of Boston's most bizarre pieces of folklore.Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesBoston Daily Globe. 1919. "Death toll from tank disaster 13." Boston Daily Globe, January 18: 1.—. 1919. "Martin Clougherty awoke in a sea of sticky molasses." Boston Daily Globe, January 16: 7.—. 1919. "Molasses tank explosion injures 50 and kills 11." Boston Daily Globe, January 16: 1.—. 1919. "No Bill returned in tank disaster." Boston Daily Globe, February 13: 3.—. 1919. "Official police report of North End disaster." Boston Daily Globe, January 16: 7.—. 1919. "Scenes of anguish at relief station." Boston Daily Globe, January 16: 7.Buell, Spencer. 2019. "Anarchists, horses, heroes: 12 things you didn't know about the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Boston Magazine, Janaury 12.Daily Boston Globe. 1919. "Explosion theory favored by expert." Daily Boston Globe, January 16: 1.—. 1919. "Mayor appalled, promises probe." Daily Boston Globe, January 16: 1.Dwyer, Dialynn. 2019. "What people saw and felt in the first moments of Boston's dead Great Molasses Flood." Boston Globe, January 13.Jabr, Ferris. 2013. "The science of the Great Molasses Flood." Scientific American, August 1.Park, Edwards. 1983. "Without warning, molasses surged over Boston 100 years ago." Smithsonian Magazine, November 1.Puleo, Stephen. 2004. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Zooming in the early morning, feeling a little silly! This episode brought to you by Magic Mind! Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with our link: https://www.magicmind.com/DOUBLEJAN #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance! The Notes: The 4 cardinal directions of escaping from a heist! Nelson has a passion for heistery! Bon mots vs raisons d'être! Finger and a friend! The English love a plus one! Get you some Magic Mind! Perfect temperature mind porridge! Will tells the story of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919! That's a girthy vat of molasses! Will debuts his impeccable Boston accent! 35 mph of molasses! Equal parts terror and confusion! Getting to heaven with a story! If the Great War didn't get you, the molasses will! Contact Us! Follow Us! Love Us! Email: doubledeucepod@gmail.com Twitter & Instagram: @doubledeucepod Bluesky: @doubledeucepod.bsky.social Facebook: www.facebook.com/DoubleDeucePod/ Patreon: patreon.com/DoubleDeucePod Also, please subscribe/rate/review/share us! We're on Apple, Android, Libsyn, Stitcher, Google, Spotify, Amazon, Radio.com, RadioPublic, pretty much anywhere they got podcasts, you can find the Deuce! Podcast logo art by Jason Keezer! Find his art online at Keezograms! Intro & Outro featuring Rob Schulte! Check out his many podcasts! Brought to you in part by sponsorship from Courtney Shipley, Official Superfans Stefan Rider and Amber Fraley, and listeners like you! Join a tier on our Patreon! Advertise with us! If you want that good, all-natural focus and energy, our DOUBLEDEUCE20 code still works at www.magicmind.com/doubledeuce for 20% off all purchases and subscriptions. But once again, right now get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with the code DOUBLEJAN! Check out the Lawrence Times's 785 Collective at https://lawrencekstimes.com/785collective/ for a list of local LFK podcasts including this one!  

What was Max thinking about this week? Molasses! Listen and rage with us about capitalism (and maybe use the link below to get the recipe for Max's amazing molasses cookies!) Sources:“Why the Great Molasses Flood was So Deadly” by Emily Sohn for the History Channel “‘There was no escape from the wave': These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood” by Dialynn Dwyer “Surreal Photos From The Deadly Boston Molasses Flood Of 1919” by John Koroski “The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 was Boston's strangest disaster” by Mark Shanahan for Boston Globe Magazine "How Boston's Molasses Flood of 1919 Reformed Big Business in America" by Philip S. Naudas for History of Yesterday “That Time the Tzar's Wine Ran Through the Streets” by Rose Heichelbech For more info: Stephen Puleo's book “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919” And at the WILDLY great risk of being insensitive, my favorite recipe for molasses cookiesWant more??Join the Discord!Shop the merch at TeePublic!If you liked these stories, let us know on our various socials!InstagramTiktokGoodreadsAnd email us at sortofthestory@gmail.comDo You Wanna Start A CultA weekly comedy podcast hosted by Gus Holland and Christian McLain.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Hillary and Tina cover the great molasses flood and former commissioner Jimmy Dimora. Hillary's Story The Purity Distilling Company facility stored a considerable amount of molasses at the North End of Boston in 1919. BUT faulty storage vats lead to a one of the greatest disasters in Boston history. Tina's Story James Turner began his political career as a county commissioner before moving into a New Jersey house and then senate member in 1972. BUT, when he sets out to destroy a political rival, he destroys his career instead. 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History can be really strange. For instance, you'd think an exploding tank of warm molasses during a frigid Boston January would be funny, or at least, sort of a nice break from the cold, but look at how wrong you'd be. In one of the more gruesome episodes to date, hear all about how one company managed to botch an entire operation start to deadly finish, and how one small historical event you've probably never heard about changed history. Follow us on TikTok @deathapodcast Let us know if you think Angel should get a tattoo. Support us on Patreon. Follow us on instagram(@deathandfriendspodcast)! Follow Nash Flynn @itsnashflynn Follow Angel Luna @GuerrillaJokes This is a KnaveryInk podcast. Have you seen our website? https://www.deathandfriends.org/

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It's January 16th. This day in 1919, the North End neighborhood of Boston is digging out from under 2.3 million gallons of molasses, which flooded city streets after a storage tank burst. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by science and history writer Cara Giaimo to discuss how the flood has been reduced to a quirky tidbit of history, when in fact it should be taken serious as an industrial disaster that could have been prevented. Cara wrote about the flood for Atlas Obscura in 2019 and also did a great Twitter thread touring the North End and looking for clues of the disaster.

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History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial Street." The bizarre flood decimated Boston's North End. How did it happen? And why does it still affect us all today?Special thank you to our guest Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

*EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING* In 1919, the people of Boston found themselves in a sticky situation when a monstrous metal tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses exploded. The destruction was second only to that time I let my toddler play with legos while eating pancakes. If you'd like to help keep Unethical Podcast at the top of your feeds, please join us on Patreon or donate to us on Ko-fi! Thanks in advance for your support. JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM BUY  UNETHICAL MERCH DONATE ON KO-FI Music by: Chandler Edom Thomas https://www.greatdisasters.co.uk/the-boston-molasses-flood/ https://erenow.net/common/dark-tide-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/2.php https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160817-the-killer-flood-made-of-molasses https://www.boston.com/news/history/2017/01/15/its-been-exactly-98-years-since-a-giant-wave-of-molasses-killed-21-people-in-boston/

*EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING* In 1919, the people of Boston found themselves in a sticky situation when a monstrous metal tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses exploded. The destruction was second only to that time I let my toddler play with legos while eating pancakes. If you'd like to help keep Unethical Podcast at the top of your feeds, please join us on Patreon or donate to us on Ko-fi! Thanks in advance for your support. JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM BUY  UNETHICAL MERCH DONATE ON KO-FI Music by: Chandler Edom Thomas https://www.greatdisasters.co.uk/the-boston-molasses-flood/ https://erenow.net/common/dark-tide-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/2.php https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160817-the-killer-flood-made-of-molasses https://www.boston.com/news/history/2017/01/15/its-been-exactly-98-years-since-a-giant-wave-of-molasses-killed-21-people-in-boston/

Shannon tells the sad, dark story of the Gibbons twins, June and Jennifer, who became known as the Silent Twins. MB recounts the Great Boston Molasses Flood.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Subscribe to the podcast!https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/   On January 15, 1919, the city of Boston suffered its greatest disaster when a storage tank filled with over 2 million gallons of molasses burst and killed 21 people and injured 150 more.  Researchers have been studying the unique circumstances surrounding this industrial accident ever since. Learn more about the Great Boston Molasses Flood on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. https://Everything-Everywhere.com/CuriosityStream -------------------------------- Executive Producer James Makkyla Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EEDailyPodcast/ Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, the Boston Molassacre, or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juliusmanuel/message

What do healthy treats, naturopathy and the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 all have in common? They're all up for discussion in this week's episode! This week the ladies sit down with their first-ever guest (!!) naturopathic doctor, Courtney Russell for a discussion on health, wellness and sweet eats as Courtney gives us all the details on her healthy baked good subscription business, Well Baked Box! IG: @atwhitsendpodcast.

Although this story at first may appear as a funny story it turns tragic quickly. In this episode we look at The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.  We also provide a little history and background of molasses. Maybe the next time you buy a jar for cooking you might think there is a lot more to this little jar of molasses than I ever imagined.

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It was called the Boston Molasses Disaster and also the Great Boston Molasses Flood….on January 15, 1919...this day in weather history.

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The first episode of 2021 starts with an interview with Kaylin Orr, Koach KO.  An accomplished fitness trainer and expert in nutrition she gives some advice on how to get fit in the new year.  From beginners looking for a gentle hand, to those who have fallen off and need to get back on the horse, Kaylin has something for everyone looking to improve their lives.We take a look back at the first really detailed account of alien abduction next.  Betty and Barney Hill, a newlywed couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire were returning from a trip to Montreal in 1961 when something strange and unexplained happened.  Learn more about this In Their Footsteps.This Week In History takes a shocking look at the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 that severely damaged the city's North End.  We learn the origins of the richest man in the history of America, John D. Rockefeller, and his Standard Oil Company.  Next is the amazing story of a female, teenage captain of a seal hunting vessel in the late 19th century.  Finally we celebrate the creation of Motown Records.Lastly take a trip Back In the Day 20 years to when I called Las Vegas, Nevada home.  Learn about the culture shock of going from the relative rural lifestyle of Cape Cod to the extravagant indulgent life one can live in Sin City.  All of this and more is here in Episode 6, so come and take a walk!Check out Episode 5 here.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InMyFootste)

This week Emily details the bizarre and deadly Boston molasses flood of 1919. Claire encourages us to join the grassroots (minus the grass) movement of the homegrown national parks. This one's got post election vibes ya'll. Follow us @chaosconsidered on twitter and instagram. Email us at chaosconsidered@gmail.com. Check out chaosconsidered.com

Welcome to the Taby Monologues. Almost. Today Taby entertains and horrifies Dawn and Jade with a recounting of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. A true disaster in which a gigantic wave of Molasses burst through the streets of a Boston area, destroying buildings, damaging train lines and taking the lives of 21 innocent people. Learn how human greed and incompetance, coupled with unfortunate environmental factors lead to this bizarre event.  For short bites of the MMO crew, remember our weekly bonus Nation States Episodes drop every Thursday.Don't forget to like and follow us on all our platforms.Facebook:   The-maid-the-mother-and-the-otherInstagram:   @maidmotherotherTwitter:         @MotherOtherEmail:           maidmotherother@gmail.com  

On January 15, 1919, the city of Boston suffered its greatest disaster when a storage tank filled with over 2 million gallons of molasses burst and killed 21 people and injured 150 more.  Researchers have been studying the unique circumstances surrounding this industrial accident ever since. Learn more about the Great Boston Molasses Flood on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. https://Everything-Everywhere.com/CuriosityStream -------------------------------- Executive Producer James Makkyla Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EEDailyPodcast/ Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

In episode 23 Ashleigh gives us nightmares and at the very least gives us reason to carry a taser as she tells us about Jerry Brudos. Then Courtney explains why we now have the permitting requirements for new buildings after the Great Boston Molasses Flood. Find research sources and more info at SHEattleontap.com

Your favorite sisters are back for a new season in quarantine! We might be apart but it doesn't mean our hilarious antics are far away. This week we tackle a story close to home, The Great Boston Molasses Flood. Who knew that the delicious ingredient in a cookie could cause death and destruction? So hide yourself in your closet away from the family or tell the roommates to be quiet and settle in for a dose of SISPICION! Organization Spotlight: Office for Victims of Crime, administers the Crime Victims Fund (the Fund), which is financed by fines and penalties paid by convicted federal offenders, not from tax dollars. Federal revenues deposited into the Fund also come from gifts, donations, and bequests by private parties. OVC channels funding for victim compensation and assistance throughout the United States, raises awareness about victims’ issues, promotes compliance with victims’ rights laws, and provides training and technical assistance and publications and products to victim assistance professionals. Research Sources: https://www.history.com/news/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919 https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326

Molasses. That sweet, brown, viscous liquid. Harmless enough when you buy a jar at the store, but destructive and damaging when hundreds of thousand of gallons come rushing at you at 35 miles per hour. A cold January day in Boston sets the scene for an unlikely flood.View us on Podbean - thestoryyouneverheard.podbean.comVisit our website - www.thestoryyouneverheard.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tsynh/support

January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial Street." The bizarre flood decimated Boston's North End. How did it happen? And why does it still affect us all today?Special thanks to our guest, Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Twas the month after Christmas and James Guttman was thrilled. JG returns for season two with a look back on the disaster that was the holiday season, how the festive spirit can kick the tinsel out of the best of us, the red flag story of his crazy eyed boss and his buggy permanent tree, and more. Plus, a lesson about making memories...and the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.Like Hi Pod! I'm Dad on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HiPodImDad/Hi Blog! I'm Dad: http://www.hiblogimdad.comLike Hi Blog! I'm Dad on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HiBlogImDad/Follow James Guttman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HiJamesGuttman

The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, and sometimes referred to locally as the Boston Molassacre, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank burst, filled with 2,300,000 US gal 10,886 metric tons; 24,000,000 lbs) of molasses, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event entered local folklore and residents claimed for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days.

This week we explore The Boston Molasses Disaster. Millions of gallons of hot molasses overtook the media and North Boston in 1919 and honestly we never knew. Let us dive into a sugary horrific mess of coporate decision making and study what this event was and how we have ensured it will not happen again. We hope you enjoy the show and thanks for listening! Sources: All That’s Interesting - November 14, 2017 - Surreal Photos From The Deadly Boston Molasses Flood Of 1919 - https://allthatsinteresting.com/boston-molasses-flood NPR - January 15, 2019 - A Deadly Tsunami Of Molasses In Boston's North End - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685154620/a-deadly-tsunami-of-molasses-in-bostons-north-end Emily Sohn - History - January 15, 2019 - Why the Great Molasses Flood Was So Deadly - https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science Ben Kesslen - NBC News - January 14, 2019 - The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326

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You guys remember when Boston was covered in Molasses because a factory exploded?Well now you know some useless information that you'll definitely need in life. Enjoy Episode 9 of The Talking ScaRy Podcast!

The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith, decides who is to blame for The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 with guest, Maggie Marion. On the board this week: Capitalism, Racism, and The Building Department. Tell us who you think is to blame at http://thealarmistpodcast.com!Email us at thealarmistpodcast@gmail.com.Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @thealarmistpodcast. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey Campers get away from that Pukwudgie and over to the fire, we got some stories to tell. This week we cover The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 and how a over 200 Bostonians faced a 25ft wave of sticky goo that made the town sticky for a summer. We also cover the lore of the North American creature the Pukwudgie and how not only are the good with a poison dart and a knife, but also "deadly" accurate with a pinecone.CAMPSTRANGE.COMINSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / TWITTER

This week we finish the tragic event that would come to be known as the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. The tank finally has collapsed and we talk about all the death and destruction that would follow it. Follow us on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter! Email us - bumblebuttpodcast@gmail.com  Intro/outro music is titled 'LOSE' from New Totally Radical by EXIT MINDBOMB Brando's Twitter Listen to all of Brando's projects on his YouTube, and watch h

This week we delve into Bumblebutt Podcast's favorite syrupy substance molasses. The construction of the 2 million gallon molasses tank in 1915 in Boston would end up leading to one of histories worst disasters.  Follow us on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter! Email us - bumblebuttpodcast@gmail.com  Intro/outro music is titled 'LOSE' from New Totally Radical by EXIT MINDBOMB Brando's Twitter Listen to all of Brando's projects on his YouTube, and watch h

The guys get sticky with this week's episode of Bourbon Legends and discuss Titanic Plot Holes, Candied Horses and one of the most ridiculous tragedies in the history of Boston. The Great Boston Molasses Flood.   Cheers!

This week on NEXT: We discuss how the government shutdown is affecting individuals in New England, including through a growing backlog of cases at Boston’s immigration court. Plus, we learn about how states around our region use subsidies to lure businesses. On the hundredth anniversary of the “Great Boston Molasses Flood,” we hear about how the event shaped the relationship between business and government. Finally, we explore the best New England food of the past year from Yankee Magazine's Senior Food Editor, Amy Traverso. It's NEXT! (more…)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molasses: the silent terror. Or at least it was for 21 Bostonians who were killed by a massive flood of the sticky ingredient for cookies and rum in 1919.

A History Snippet about the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. The sweetest disaster in history.

Time to get sticky-icky. The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919 in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Patreon: Carousel Sniper Victim Shop here: www.carouselsnipervictim.com/shop -LIKE-SHARE-COMMENT-TAG-REVIEW- Every month we'll choose one person from the seedy world of social media notifications and send them some prizes! Find more at www.carouselsnipervictim.com Produced by Shaun Jeffery Additional Production by Leigh Massoni massoni.sound.design@gmail.com Tunes by- Dropkick Murphys- I'm Shipping Up To Boston Follow us on all your finest social tubes: @CarouselSniperVictim @DeadGlassDesign Facebook, Instagram, Twitter sources/ further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood https://www.historytoday.com/chuck-lyons/sticky-tragedy-boston-molasses-disaster https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/science/boston-molasses-flood-science.html

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This week, it's all about fetishes (where do we cross the line?), cults, the Great Boston Molasses Flood, and what hobbies pass as cool... Song Credits: Intro: Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity Outro: Tell Mama - Etta James --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Special guest Akshay Tailor of Blood on the Rocks tells David and Rachel the horrific story of the 1919 Boston molasses flood.

In 1919 a bizarre catastrophe struck Boston's North End: A giant storage tank failed, releasing 2 million gallons of molasses into a crowded business district at the height of a January workday. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Boston Molasses Disaster, which claimed 21 lives and inscribed a sticky page into the city's history books. We'll also admire some Scandinavian statistics and puzzle over a provocative Facebook photo. Intro: In 1888 three women reported encountering a 15-foot flying serpent in the woods near Columbia, S.C. In 1834 the American Journal of Science and Arts reported the capture of a pair of conjoined catfish near Fort Johnston, N.C. Sources for our feature on the Boston Molasses Disaster: Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, 2003. Fred Durso Jr., "The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919," NFPA Journal 105:3 (May/June 2011), 90-93. Sean Potter, "Retrospect: January 15, 1919: Boston Molasses Flood," Weatherwise 64:1 (January/February 2011), 10-11. Kaylie Duffy, "Today in Engineering History: Molasses Tanker Explodes, Kills 21," Product Design & Development, Jan. 15, 2015. Steve Puleo, "Death by Molasses," American History 35:6 (February 2001), 60-66. Chuck Lyons, "A Sticky Tragedy," History Today 59.1 (January 2009), 40-42. Dick Sinnott, "21 Persons Drowned in Molasses Flood," Reading [Pa.] Eagle, Jan. 15, 1959. Edwards Park, "Without Warning, Molasses in January Surged Over Boston," Smithsonian 14:8 (November 1983), 213-230. "12 Killed When Tank of Molasses Explodes," New York Times, Jan. 16, 1919. Ferris Jabr, "The Science of the Great Molasses Flood," Scientific American, Aug. 1, 2013. United Press International, "The Great Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919," Jan. 17, 1979. Peter Schworm, "Nearly a Century Later, Structural Flaw in Molasses Tank Revealed," Boston Globe, Jan. 14, 2015. William J. Kole, "Slow as Molasses? Sweet but Deadly 1919 Disaster Explained," Associated Press, Nov. 24, 2016. Erin McCann, "Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly 'Tsunami of Molasses' of 1919," New York Times, Nov. 26, 2016. (The corn syrup video is midway down the page.) Jason Daley, "The Sticky Science Behind the Deadly Boston Molasses Disaster," Smithsonian, Nov. 28, 2016. Jennifer Ouellette, "Incredible Physics Behind the Deadly 1919 Boston Molasses Flood," New Scientist, Nov. 24, 2016. The Boston Public Library has photos and newspaper headlines. Listener mail: Erik Bye's song on the 15th Wisconsin Regiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o5TUozjQXw Statistics Norway's names database. Wikipedia, "Old Norse" (accessed Jan. 5, 2017). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Tommy Honton, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Strange things happen. Fish sometimes fall from the sky. Unexplained lights perform strange maneuvers in the night sky. Children claim to 'remember' past lives. While all of these must be taken with more than a modicum of suspicion, there are strange occurrences in history which are without a doubt real and actual events. The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 is one such event. Be careful. Though you might be tempted to laugh at the idea of a flood of molasses as  ludicrous and unbelievable, the series of tragic events that took place on January 15, 1919 left twenty-one people dead and a score of people injured. As strange and as sickeningly sweet as it sounds, Boston experienced the world's only known disaster caused by a sugar by-product. Molasses was a staple food in colonial New England. Slave ships emptied their cargo in the West Indies and filled their holds with barrels of molasses and then headed to the colonies. Sugar was one of the most expensive staples in the colonial pantry, so molasses was a welcome and much less expensive alternative. Colonists used it in the production of beer and rum and you cannot have true New England Baked Beans, brown bread or pumpkin pie without it. Most people are unaware that molasses had a very important role to play during wartime and it had nothing to do with food. As any home brewer will tell you, sugar and yeast together create something very powerful: alcohol. Ships from Cuba, Puerto Rico and other islands in the West Indies would dock and pump out thousands of gallons to later be carried by rail car to the Purity plant in Cambridge where it underwent the process of conversion to industrial alcohol. Then, the alcohol could be used in the mass manufacture of munitions and explosives, adding to the war effort and making a lot of money for the United States Industrial Alcohol Company. Since the outbreak of war in 1914, overseas demand for alcohol had strained domestic resources and the British, the Canadian and the French governments could not get enough. With a paltry twenty percent of the molasses shipped to American converted into rum, a whopping 80 percent of the substance was turned into a major ingredient of weaponry, especially of dynamite, smokeless powder and other explosives. In order to facilitate the collection and distribution of the molasses, the company built a massive holding tank, fifty feet high and ninety feet in diameter capable of holding as much as 2,300,000 gallons of molasses. The tank stood in the North End, near Boston Harbor and the historic section of town that housed the Old North Church and Paul Revere's House. The tank was very to close the Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Commercial Street. It was one of the largest structures in the area and it towered over many houses and commercial buildings in the area, always in the background. It was built the same way that metal ships like the Titanic were built at the time with sheet steel and rivets overlapping at the edges. Like the Titanic, the Boston tank had a major flaw in the steel common to all steel manufactured in the early part of the century: it was made with very little manganese, an element that strengthens steel making it capable of withstanding great pressure without cracking. From the very beginning, people became used to seeing the dark brown stain of molasses running down from rivet holes all over the structure. Children would be dispatched with containers to visit the plant and collect as much of the run-off as they could. Though most of the people who actually lived in the area were Italian immigrants and therefore out of the mainstream of Boston life, it became a problem for the company that owned the tank. They did not want word to spread that there was a problem with it. Something had to be done. In their wisdom, the people at the US Industrial Alcohol Company found a way to fix the issue: they ordered the structure to be painted a molasses brown, so the leaks could easily be masked. Although the structure was only ever filled to capacity three times before the accident, it was on constant use and was never shut down and emptied for a complete inspection. Perhaps no one could imagine that a substance so obviously harmless as brown liquid sugar could ever be deadly in another sense, a very real and overwhelming sense, without ever being converted into alcohol. January 15, 1919 should have been a quiet day at the molasses tank. The ship Miliero had unloaded her cargo two days ago. It had taken everything that the pumps had to urge the semi-solid sticky substance through the tubes in freezing weather, but after this unloading, there wouldn't be another ship for at least three months. During those three months, the molasses would be slowly shipped to the Purity plant to be converted into alcohol bound for munition factories. A few who survived the event can remember hearing the shifting and gurgling that occurs when molasses is actively fermenting and perhaps that process helped speed along the final conditions that led to the failure of the hoops at the bottom of the tank and the rivets along the seams. At 12:41 PM, the tank gave way. The headline of the Boston Daily Globe for the next morning read "Molasses Tank Explosion Inures 50 and kills 11. Death and devastation in wake of North End Disaster." By the time they found all of the bodies glued to the ground in the muck and immovable mire, the number of dead had risen to twenty-one.  What happened directly after 12:41 was witnessed by hundreds. A black wave of death flowed much more quickly than might be imagined, twenty-five feet high and one hundred and sixty feet wide.The wave was so heavy that it essentially smashed the waterfront like a bomb. One half-mile of Commercial Street was destroyed and it flowed in all directions. Rivets snapped off and turned into projectiles: steel bullets randomly filling the air as the tank continued to break. The Engine 31 Firehouse was ripped from its foundation and almost made it to the dark waters of the harbor. "Men and women, their feet trapped by the sticky mass, slipped and fell and were suffocated," reported the Boston Globe in a remembrance of the event in 1968.  Brick tenements, storefronts, various wooden structures were all torn and shattered. Anything that stood in the path of the oncoming molasses was hit by the heavy liquid hammer of the cascading molasses. What wasn't destroyed or swept into Boston Harbor was glued to the ground or covered by the rubble. Cellars were filled with molasses. Electrical poles and live electrical lines snapped and popped in the thick detritus of the event. The rescuers were stunned when they arrived. How does a person move in waist-deep molasses? It is even possible? Horses were frozen on the ground, drowning in the thick goo and one of the first things that had to be done was to quickly dispatch them, leaving their fallen forms glued to the ground. How could the rescuers tell where a human form might be beneath the deep mass of molasses? So many died because they could not be reached in time or because they were simply overwhelmed and died of asphyxiation. Some were able to rise from the sticky mass and ride on small flotillas of flotsam and jetsam. Rescuers at the Haymarket Relief Station risked death as their boots bogged down in the mire. At the stations set up to process the injured, teams of rescuers worked tirelessly to remove the hardening molasses from breathing passages and remove the sticky clothing of the victims. Doctor and nurses soon became covered in molasses and blood. Nothing like this had ever been experienced before. When the time came to clean the molasses, sea water became the only solvent that was plentiful and able to cut through the thick, heavy goop that covered Commercial Street.  It would take weeks in the wintry weather to even begin to make a dent in the destruction. Boston Harbor went brown. How could this have happened? The company that was responsible for the tank had a theory: anarchists. Italian anarchists were immediately labeled as the mad bombers of their day. Surely, given the disproportionate amount of discrimination that Italian Bostonians had to endure, it was easy to imagine that they might have struck back with such an act. Boston had been the hotbed for Italian anarchist activities. Why not a bomb and why not terrorism? In August of 1919, the US Industrial Alcohol Company lost two of its molasses ships, without a trace. These unexplained losses seemed to point toward the same source again: anarchists. The Boston Molasses Disaster had ramifications that continued to run through the courts and the halls of industry. If no identifiable person or persons could be found, someone would have to bear the burden of the property damages and that had leveled Commercial Street in Boston. The US Industrial Alcohol Company would be taken to court . Valued at today's prices, over $100 million dollars worth of wreckage was claimed. We know from examining the records that no engineer or architect was ever consulted during the design and building of the huge tank. The tank was built quickly with an eye on spending as little as possible. Six years later the good people who lived in the North End and who lost their lives or their their homes, each received around $7000 each from the US Industrial Alcohol Company which had been found liable for all damages by the Massachusetts Superior Court. Never again would the state of Massachusetts allow such a structure to be built without state supervision and construction codes. Could such a thing ever happen again? Surely not. But it did. A more recent molasses spill occurred in 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A faulty pipe poured over 1,400 tons of the sticky mass into Honolulu Harbor. All sea life in the harbor was killed due to the de-oxygenation of the water caused by the molasses covering the entire bottom. Sources Puleo, Stephen, Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, copyright 2004, Beacon Press, Boston. Schworm, Peter "Nearly a century later, structural flaw in molasses tank revealed," Boston Globe 01/14/2015

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