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Dark Tide

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

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Dark Tide

Auteur(s): Stephen Puleo
Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like, "a 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's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.

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The author builds the tension as the scene is set for a terrible accident. When it comes, there's no immediate release of tension, but rather it ratchets up as the wave of molasses crushes and grinds everything in its path. I liked this book very much for its thoroughness in building the scene for why and how the molasses tank was built in a direct and factual way, how it unfolds the disaster following its collapse and the aftermath. A very satisfying book. I learned a lot.

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