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:: Saturday, January 24, 2004 ::
Great molasses flood of 1919 remembered AP
Boston — Danny O'Brien looked at a photograph of firefighters knee-deep in molasses trying to rescue people trapped in a collapsed firehouse, and remembered his grandfather's tales of sticky horror.
“Those stories were something ... horses stuck in this sea of molasses, a lot of cars, people stuck, houses smashed to pieces,” said O'Brien, looking through a Boston Public Library exhibit commemorating the 85th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood, which killed 21 people and injured 150.
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