> In 1919, the Great Molasses Flood occurred in which city?And the answer: Boston. Photo Courtesy: Boston Globe Archive.The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 occurredin the American city of Boston, Massachusetts. Filled with over two milliongallons of molasses, a large storage tank burst, and a 15-foot wave of the thicksticky substance poured through the streets at an estimated 35 mph. Twenty-onepeople didn't survive, and another 150 were injured.Looking down the barrel of impending prohibition, the United States IndustrialAlcohol company was in a rush to turn the sweet sugary molasses into booze asquickly as possible. As a result, the 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses wasfilled to the brim – and then some. Around midday on January 15, 1919, afterdays of the customary creaks and groans of the giant tank, the molasses let outa roar as a devastating flood of the sweet sticky substance exploded out of thetank and down Commercial Street. Buildings were instantly swept off theirfoundations, cars were squashed, even a railroad car was turned off its tracks. In the wake of the disaster, the victims filed 119 different lawsuits againstUnited States Industrial Alcohol. In a long-drawn out case, in which theIndustrial Alcohol Company cited sabotage by Italian anarchist groups, USIAfinally paid the flood victims and their family members $628,000 in damages (theequivalent of around $8 million today). Meanwhile, the streets of downtownBoston and its waters remained brown for months. Some even claimed to smell thesweet molasses for years following the flood. Check out this NPR article[https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685154620/a-deadly-tsunami-of-molasses-in-bostons-north-end] for more on what's now known as Boston's strangest flood (or, alternatively, TheBoston Molassacre).