100 years ago in Boston: The day molasses was deadly fast

BOSTON (AP) — Boston is marking the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
Exactly a century ago Tuesday, a massive wave of 2.3 million gallons (8.7 million liters) of molasses unleashed by a ruptured storage tank came crashing through the city’s North End, obliterating everything in its path.
Twenty-one people were killed, along with dozens of horses, and 150 were injured.
This molasses was anything but slow. Historians say the init