IN SWEET TURNED DEADLY: THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

On a sultry January day in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive container overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown syrup that engulfed the streets below. Dozens of people became victims in the catastrophic flood, buried under the unexpected force of the molasses. Th