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The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses. The disaster occurred at the Purity Distilling Company facility on January 15, 1919. The temperature had risen above 40 °F (4 °C), climbing rapidly from the frigid temperatures of the preceding days. Molasses can be fermented to produce rum and ethanol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions. The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge. At about 12:30 in the afternoon near Keany Square, at 529 Commercial Street, a molasses tank 50 feet (15 meters) tall, 90 feet (27 meters) in diameter, and containing as much as 2,300,000 U.S. gallons (8,700 cubic meters), collapsed. Witnesses variously reported that as it collapsed they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train (coincidentally, with a line of that type close by), a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang!, and as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound. The collapse unleashed a wave of molasses 25 feet (8 metres) high at its peak, moving at 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour) The molasses wave was of sufficient force to damage the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a railroad car momentarily off the tracks. Author Stephen Puleo describes how nearby buildings were swept off their foundations and crushed. Several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 centimeters). Puleo quotes a Boston Post report: Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage ... Here and there struggled a form—whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was ... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings—men and women—suffered likewise. The Boston Globe reported that people "were picked up by a rush of air and hurled many feet." Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air. A truck was picked up and hurled into Boston Harbor. Approximately 150 were injured; 21 people and several horses were killed—some were crushed and drowned by the molasses. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast. In a 1983 article for Smithsonian, Edwards Park wrote of one child's experience: Anthony di Stasio, walking homeward with his sisters from the Michelangelo School, was picked up by the wave and carried, tumbling on its crest, almost as though he were surfing. Then he grounded and the molasses rolled him like a pebble as the wave diminished. He heard his mother call his name and couldn't answer, his throat was so clogged with the smothering goo. He passed out, then opened his eyes to find three of his four sisters staring at him. This was a brief recounting of the great molasses flood.

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ボストン糖蜜災害または大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水とも呼ばれる大の糖蜜の洪水 1919 年 1 月 15 日、アメリカ合衆国マサチューセッツ州ボストンのノースエンド地区で発生しました。大規模な糖蜜貯蔵タンク破裂、および糖蜜の波が時速 (56 キロ p 推定 35 マイルで通りを急いだ

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Great molasses called the Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood flood 1/15/1919, occurred in the United States, Massachusetts, Boston's north end Neighborhood. An hour is a large molasses storage tank burst, and the molasses wave (56 kg p estimated 35 miles

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ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水と呼ばれる大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919/01/15、アメリカ合衆国で発生した、マサチューセッツ州ボストンの北終わり近所。時間はバースト、大きい糖蜜貯蔵タンクと糖蜜の波 (56 kg p 推定 35 マイル

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North end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, raised in the United States of America called the Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15,. Burst a large molasses storage tank and the molasses wave was time (56 kg p estimated 35 miles

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ノース ・ エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水と偉大な糖蜜と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国ので発生した洪水 1919/01/15。大規模な糖蜜貯蔵タンクをバーストし、糖蜜の波は時間 (56 kg p 推定 35 マイル

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That occurred in the United States called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. A large molasses tank burst, and a wave of molasses time (56 kg p estimated 35 miles

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北エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水、大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919 と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国で発生した/01/15。バースト、大規模な糖蜜タンクと糖蜜時間 (56 kg p 推定 35 マイルの波

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That occurred in the United States of America called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. Burst a large molasses tank and molasses time (56 kg p estimated 35 mph waves

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北エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水、大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919 と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国の中で発生した/01/15。バースト (56 kg p 推定 35 mph 波大きい糖蜜タンクと糖蜜時間

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That occurred in the United States of America called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. Burst (56 kg p estimated 35 mph waves big molasses tank and molasses time

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北エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水、大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919 と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国の中で発生した/01/15。バースト (56 kg 推定 p 35 mph 波大きい糖蜜タンクと糖蜜の時間

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That occurred in the United States of America called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. Burst (56 kg estimated p 35 mph waves big molasses tank and molasses times

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北エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水、大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919 と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国の中で発生した/01/15。バースト (推定 56 kg p 毎時 35 マイル波大きい糖蜜タンクと糖蜜回

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That occurred in the United States of America called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. Burst (estimated 56 kg p/h 35 mph waves big molasses tank and molasses times

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北エンド近隣のボストン、マサチューセッツ、ボストン糖蜜災害と大きいボストン糖蜜の洪水、大きい糖蜜の洪水 1919 と呼ばれるアメリカ合衆国の中で発生した/01/15。バースト (推定 56 kg p 毎時 35 マイル波大きい糖蜜タンクと糖蜜回

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That occurred in the United States of America called the north end Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Molasses disaster and the great Boston Molasses Flood and the great molasses flood 1919 / 01 / 15. Burst (estimated 56 kg p/h 35 mph waves big molasses tank and molasses times