(Download free pdf) Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
| #80811 in Books | Beacon Press | 2004-09-16 | 2004-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.97 x.74 x6.01l,.98 | File Name: 0807050210 | 273 pages |
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Truly Great Book|By Joseph N. Adrignola|Author Stephen Puleo has done it again. In this book, he has taken a relatively obscure event and told us an incredible story. The historical part is expertly researched by him and full of insight not previously well known. He gives us the historical context of the times when this event took place and more than that, he describes the|From Publishers Weekly|In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston's North End and killed 21 p
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-"Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!"
A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston'...
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