IN SWEET TURNED DEADLY: THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

On a sultry January day in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive reservoir overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown syrup that consumed the streets below. Scores of people were caught in the catastrophic flood, crushed by the unexpected force of the molasses. The sce