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 American Disasters sticky molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown syrup that engulfed the streets below. Scores of people were caught in the unforeseen disaster, buried under the unexpected weight of the