The explosion that ensued took 21 lives, injured many more victims, and just about flattened several blocks in the North End of Boston. Cleaning up the sticky mess was a waking nightmare. After ...

Usually food-related disasters take the form of viral diseases, but over a hundred years ago in Boston, molasses was the source of one of the most legendary disasters in American history. It's the ...

Over 106 years ago, Boston's North End faced one of the most bizarre and tragic disasters in history. On January 15, 1919, a storage tank holding 2.3 million US gallons of molasses suddenly burst, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Early in 1919, a shoddily constructed industrial tank, under immense pressure from gas produced by hot molasses poured onto cold molasses, could take ...