Dark tide

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo

2003 263 pages eng

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…