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	Boston molasses disaster - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Molasses was also fermented (producing ethyl alcohol) for use in making liquor and as a key component in the manufacture of munitions.
		The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (60 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft² (200 kPa).
		The molasses wave was of sufficient force to break the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue Elevated structure and lift a train off the tracks.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Boston_molasses_disaster (702 words)

	Molasses
		Molasses is a thick, syrupy derivative of the juice of the sugar cane plant.
		Sulphured molasses is made from green (unripe) sugar cane and is treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extraction process.
		A famous incident involving molasses was the Boston Molasses Disaster on January 15, 1919, in which a large molasses storage tank burst and flooded a neighborhood of Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Molasses.html (277 words)

	BOSTON MOLASSES DISASTER : Encyclopedia Entry
		The Boston Molasses Disaster which is also known as the Great Molasses Flood or The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
		A large molasses treacle tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150.
		Molasses can also be fermented, producing ethyl alcohol which is used in the making liquor and was a key component in the manufacturing of munitions.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Boston_Molasses_Disaster (1175 words)

	All About Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boston is the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
		Greater Boston is one of the top-ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
		Boston College was the first institution of higher education to be founded in Boston, though it moved from the city's South End to then-rural Chestnut Hill to escape Boston's rapid urbanization in the late nineteenth century.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0405/travel/boston.html (2766 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The great Boston molasses flood - Thursday \| October 10, 2002
		Sulphured molasses is made from green sugar cane that has not matured long enough and treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extracting process.
		Molasses from the first boiling is the finest grade because only a small amount of sugar has been removed.
		Blackstrap molasses is from the third boil and only has a commercial value in the manufacture of cattle feed and other industrial uses.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021010/cook/cook2.html (468 words)

	Boston molasses disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boston Molasses Disaster which is also known as the Great Molasses Flood or The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
		A large molasses treacle tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150.
		Molasses can also be fermented, producing ethyl alcohol which is used in the making liquor and was a key component in the manufacturing of munitions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_molasses_disaster (1215 words)

	Boston, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boston is the capital and largest city the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the USA.
		The Boston Massacre the Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles the revolutionary war (such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city.
		Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere Chelsea Everett Somerville Cambridge Watertown Newton and Quincy and the towns of Winthrop Brookline Needham Dedham Canton and Milton.
	www.freeglossary.com /Boston,_Massachusetts (2432 words)

	Molasses & Rum
		Blackstrap molasses is from the third boil and has a commercial value in the manufacture of cattle feed and other industrial uses.
		Sulphured molasses is made from green sugar cane that has not matured long enough and treated with sulphur fumes during the sugar extracting process.
		Starch Molasses is a by-product of dextrose manufacture from starch derived from corn or grain sorghums where the starch is hydrolyzed by enzymes and/or acid.
	running_on_alcohol.tripod.com /id21.html (2532 words)

	The Straight Dope: Was Boston once literally flooded with molasses?
		Seemingly a huge tank of molasses crumbled under the tremendous weight, sending a "tidal wave of molasses traveling 35 mph" down the street, where it proceeded to kill tens of people and many horses.
		The firm shipped molasses, a by-product of sugar refining, from Caribbean ports to plants in the U.S., where it was distilled into alcohol, used back then in the manufacture of gunpowder and other munitions.
		Once molasses was pumped in, the tank leaked so copiously at the seams that neighborhood kids collected the drippings in cans.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/041231.html (877 words)

	snarkout: slower than molasses in january
		Molasses has a long and storied history in the Americas; as part of the triangle trade, molasses had helped build the commercial fortunes of New England.
		Despite the fine tradition of molasses in Boston baked beans and Boston brown bread, this molasses was intended for finer things.
		This molasses was meant for distilling to make industrial ethanol (for military clients; thus the tank's appeal as a target to the notional anarchists) and, of course, rum.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2003/01/15 (662 words)

	boston company moving
		The Boston Molasses Disaster (also known as the Great Molasses Flood or The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy) occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
		A large molasses (treacle) tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 MPH (56 km/h), killing twenty-one and injuring 150 others.
		At the time, molasses was the standard sweetener across the United States (now supplanted by high fructose corn syrup).
	www.freewebs.com /moving-online/boston-company-moving (251 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		A large molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150.
		The disaster occurred at the Purity Distilling Company facility on January 15 1919, one day before the 18th Amendment (which prohibited alcohol production) was ratified.
		The Boston Globe reported that people "were picked up by a rush of air and hurled many feet." Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Boston_molasses_disaster (1277 words)

	The Boston Historical Society and Museum
		The Chinese population in Boston remained small and segregated until well into the 20th century, due to federal policies like the Exclusion Act of 1883 and the Immigration Act of 1924, both of which limited Chinese immigration.
		Boston is the oldest continually active port in the western hemisphere and for much of the 18th century it was the largest port in the Americas.
		Molasses from the tank had been used at a distilling plant in Cambridge, where it was converted into industrial alcohol.
	www.bostonhistory.org /photoexhib1.php (1097 words)

	Beer & Molasses History - The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - Beer and Brewing
		Molasses, or treacle, is produced as a byproduct in the manufacture of sugar.
		After the Molasses Disaster in Boston, its association with tragedy was so intense that the use of molasses experienced sudden death in the northeastern sector of the country.
		Molasses is also an ingredient in Poor Richard's Ale, the Commemorative Beer for the Ben Franklin Tercentenary, this year, 2006.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art43093.asp (1221 words)

	The Boston Historical Society and Museum
		Civic Service House, one of several settlement houses in Boston, was founded in 1901 to provide services for local residents and newly-arrived immigrants.
		A 40-foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings and inundated the neighborhood.
		Structural defects in the tank combined with unseasonably warm temperatures contributed to the disaster.
	www.bostonhistory.org /m_north.php (273 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Swept Away
		Drawing on a wealth of source materials (the disaster sparked a huge civil lawsuit, the records of which form the backbone of the author's research), Puleo chronicles the shortcuts taken by Jell and the chief contractor, Hammond Iron Works.
		The flawed tank, which leaks rivers of molasses from the first day it is filled, is turned over to Gonzales, who develops nightmares and insomnia worrying that it will fail and who eventually quits when his supervisors turn a deaf ear to his concerns.
		The last third of the book chronicles the aftermath of the disaster, principally the legal drama in which lawyers for victims charge that the tank collapsed because it was poorly constructed and the company accuses Italian-American anarchists of blowing it up.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/09/07/swept_away (640 words)

	Boston molasses disaster Information
		At 529 Commercial Street, a huge molasses tank (50 ft (15 m) tall, 90 ft (27 m) in diameter and containing as much as 2.3 million US gallons (8,700 m³ or 8,700,000 litres)) collapsed.
		The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (56 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft² (200 kPa).
		Twenty-one people were killed and 150 injured as the molasses crushed and asphyxiated many of the victims.
	www.bookrags.com /Boston_molasses_disaster (725 words)

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		The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper was founded in 1831 and established the city as the center of the abolitionist movement.
		Boston was home to the first vaudeville theater in 1883.
		Occurring in January of 1919, the Boston Molasses Disaster took the lives of 21 people and injured 150 more.
	www.shdweb.com /lodging/hotels/boston.htm (328 words)

	molasses - Boston Universal Search swicki - powered by eurekster
		Molasses or treacle is a thick syrup by-product from the processing of the...
		Molasses is the brown heavy syrupy liquid that remains after the sugar cane or...
		Molasses has become well-known locally over the past couple of years for...
	boston-universal-search-swicki.eurekster.com /molasses (369 words)

	Mass Moments: Great Molasses Flood
		And Boston's Italian immigrant community was in fact home to some of the most radical anarchists in the country.
		To avoid costly interruptions in the molasses distilling process, the manager ignored employees and others who warned that the tank was unsound.
		The molasses case marked the beginning of the end of an era when big business faced no government restrictions on its activities — and no consequences.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=19 (1087 words)

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		This influenced every facet of Boston life, and made it imperative that colonists legislate morality as well as enforce marriage, church attendance, education in the Word of God, and the persecution of sinners.
		Both the first school in America, Boston Latin School (1635), and the first college in America, Harvard College (1636), were founded in the early days of Boston.
		Boston played a key role in the sparking both the American Revolution and the ensuing American Revolutionary War.
	boston.supremeapartments.com /boston_history.htm (1602 words)

	Molasses, molasses disaster, black molasses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Molasses, if manufactured as an end product and not as a byproduct of commercial sugar production, can be a good choice of sweeteners.
		Molasses gave the worst feed conversion as compared with cane juice and.
		Molasses Add wet ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon until everything is clumpy.
	www.commercial-science.com /molasses.html (941 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (The Great Molasses Flood) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		2,320,000 gallons (14,000 tons) of molasses swept through the streets, causing death and destruction.
		Eyewitness reports tell of a "30-foot wall of goo" that smashed buildings and tossed horses, wagons and pool tables about as if they were nothing.
		Boston is not a city that forgets anything easily.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/freakish/molasses.htm (344 words)

	The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy
		After all, Boston was considered to be the distilling capital of the United States.
		The actual wall of molasses was estimated to be from 15 - 30 feet high and moved at 25-35 miles per hour in the area around the tank.
		Freshwater from the fire hydrants would not wash away the molasses, so salt water from the harbor had to be sprayed on the land.
	members.tripod.com /~earthdude1/molasses/molasses.html (714 words)

	Eric Postpischil's Molasses Disaster Pages, Yankee Magazine Article
		Across the street were the freight sheds of the Boston and Worcester and Eastern Massachusetts Railways, the paving division of the Public Works Department, the headquarters of Fire Boat 31, and the wharves with patrol boats and minesweepers moored alongside.
		Then the doors and windows caved in, and a rushing-roaring river of molasses rolled like molten lava into the freight shed, knocking over the booths where freight clerks were checking their lists.
		When Auditor Ogden made his report, he found the defendants responsible for the disaster because the molasses tank, which was fifty-eight feet high and ninety feet across, was not strong enough to withstand the pressure of the 2,500,000 gallons it was designed to hold.
	edp.org /molyank.htm (1573 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919: Books: Stephen Puleo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		More interesting are the tidbits of Boston's and America's history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history.
		Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions.
		Molasses were also irrevocably associated with Boston because of the famous triangle trade of molasses, rum and slaves.
	www.amazon.com /Dark-Tide-Great-Boston-Molasses/dp/0807050202 (2016 words)

	Boston Molasses Disaster
		The molasses flowed out in a wave between 8 and 15 feet high, moving at 35 miles per hour and exerting a force of 2 tons per square foot.
		Twenty-one people were killed and 150 injured as the hot molasses crushed, asphyxiated, and cooked many of the victims to death.
		It is thought the tank may have been overfilled due to the impending passage of Prohibition, or it may have burst due to fermentation occurring within, or by the unusual increase in the local temperatures that occurred over the previous day (the air temperature rose from 2°F to 40°F over that period).
	www.disasterrecovery-businesscontinuity.com /drp/disaster/Boston_Molasses_Disaster (509 words)

	Comments on: Worst Molasses-related Disaster: Great Boston Flood of 1919.
		Puleo also indicates that the molasses was actually kept for alcohol that was being used in military munitions.
		The second worst disaster (based on my limited scope of knowledge regarding molasses), happened just a few months ago.
		Mix a rambunctious 2 year old, a pint of molasses, and hardwood floors … and you have a disaster in the making.
	www.neatorama.com /2007/01/15/worst-molasses-related-disaster-great-boston-flood-of-1919/feed (506 words)

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