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Default Boston Molasses Disaster



Mark Thorson wrote:
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> I'd remembered hearing about this, but the Wikipedia
> entry has more details than I recalled:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
>
> I had thought only one person was killed, not 21.
> And I didn't know the tank was so big (50 feet high,
> 90 feet in diameter).


There is a tv show called "Disasters of the Century" on the history
channel here in Canada. They did a half hour show on it. .....Sharon