What was the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 and what caused the disaster?
That’s exactly what the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 was, a molasses flood. Just after noon on January 15, 1919, at the United States Alcohol Company in Boston, a fifty-eight-foot tall, 90-feet wide steel structure, holding 2.5 million gallons of hot molasses, burst open. Metal flew everywhere, and a geyser of sticky, boiling l
