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The 25-Foot Wave of Molasses That Drowned Boston (1919)

A twenty-five-foot wave of molasses sweeps through the North End of Boston at thirty-five miles an hour. It's January 15th, 1919, and it bends an elevated railway support flat. It collapses a firehouse.

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