Elena

While the wall of molasses 50 feet high in the front rolled out over the ground with a seething hissing sound. 50 feet high. And if you've ever baked with molasses.

While the wall of molasses 50 feet high in the front rolled out over the ground with a seething hissing sound. 50 feet high. And if you've ever baked with molasses.

Just a jar of molasses. It is so viscous. Think of that. And now think of, like, what that can do. It's like the blob. It's literally like a horror movie. Well, and I assume, like, I mean, it's rushing at you, first of all.

Just a jar of molasses. It is so viscous. Think of that. And now think of, like, what that can do. It's like the blob. It's literally like a horror movie. Well, and I assume, like, I mean, it's rushing at you, first of all.

So, at a second, you can't move. And, like, it's like quicksand. Oh, yeah, you're stuck in it. Think of how sticky that is and thick. Oh, my God. How did they even clean that up? I know. So later that day, the Boston Globe reported, once the low rumbling sound was heard, no one had a chance to escape. Oh, that's horrifying.

So, at a second, you can't move. And, like, it's like quicksand. Oh, yeah, you're stuck in it. Think of how sticky that is and thick. Oh, my God. How did they even clean that up? I know. So later that day, the Boston Globe reported, once the low rumbling sound was heard, no one had a chance to escape. Oh, that's horrifying.

And the scene on the docks, which was very calm, very serene a few minutes earlier, had been thrown into total chaos and panic. From his train car on the elevated tracks, Lehman, who we talked about before, looked out the window and saw, quote, a black mass bearing down on him, darkening the sky. Jesus Christ. Just before he felt the tracks buckle and the train begin to tip. Oh, God.

And the scene on the docks, which was very calm, very serene a few minutes earlier, had been thrown into total chaos and panic. From his train car on the elevated tracks, Lehman, who we talked about before, looked out the window and saw, quote, a black mass bearing down on him, darkening the sky. Jesus Christ. Just before he felt the tracks buckle and the train begin to tip. Oh, God.

In his bedroom on the third floor, Martin Clowardy came to several feet of molasses. And he said, it didn't dawn on me that it was molasses I was in, but it was already all around me. And he's in his apartment. So he broke through his fucking, oh my God. Martin told a reporter from the Globe, I thought I was overboard.

In his bedroom on the third floor, Martin Clowardy came to several feet of molasses. And he said, it didn't dawn on me that it was molasses I was in, but it was already all around me. And he's in his apartment. So he broke through his fucking, oh my God. Martin told a reporter from the Globe, I thought I was overboard.

A pile of wreckage was holding me down and a little way from me, I saw my sister. Oh my God. Now the Clowardy's house had been hit by the giant wave of molasses and knocked from its foundation. Oh. Take that in. It had been knocked, a house was knocked from its foundation. So he like he came to where? Like he was he was the whole house was sent into the elevated train line. Oh, my God. Yeah.

A pile of wreckage was holding me down and a little way from me, I saw my sister. Oh my God. Now the Clowardy's house had been hit by the giant wave of molasses and knocked from its foundation. Oh. Take that in. It had been knocked, a house was knocked from its foundation. So he like he came to where? Like he was he was the whole house was sent into the elevated train line. Oh, my God. Yeah.

Martin said it seemed as if the house had split in two when it hit the elevated structure. And I was in one side and my people in the other.

Martin said it seemed as if the house had split in two when it hit the elevated structure. And I was in one side and my people in the other.

The Clowerty's house was just one of the many structures in the neighborhood that was completely demolished by the wave of molasses. According to the Globe, the buildings seemed to cringe up as though they were made of pasteboard. As Mary Musco looked out her window and across the street to the Clowerty's house, she said she saw the entire building, quote, fly into the air. Oh, my God. Yeah.

The Clowerty's house was just one of the many structures in the neighborhood that was completely demolished by the wave of molasses. According to the Globe, the buildings seemed to cringe up as though they were made of pasteboard. As Mary Musco looked out her window and across the street to the Clowerty's house, she said she saw the entire building, quote, fly into the air. Oh, my God. Yeah.

You can't even conceive of that. You can't conceive of it. No. Like, it's so gnarly what happened here. Moving as fast as 35 miles per hour, the wave of molasses that flooded the North End devastated everything in its path. Of course it did. Six buildings in the immediate vicinity of the tank were completely gone, just totally demolished, flattened. Within seconds, I'm sure.

You can't even conceive of that. You can't conceive of it. No. Like, it's so gnarly what happened here. Moving as fast as 35 miles per hour, the wave of molasses that flooded the North End devastated everything in its path. Of course it did. Six buildings in the immediate vicinity of the tank were completely gone, just totally demolished, flattened. Within seconds, I'm sure.

And one of the steel beams supporting the elevated train line was knocked down. A steel beam. A public works horses who were kept in the stalls near the wharf were either smothered in the flood or, quote, so severely injured as their stables collapsed that they were shot by policemen to end their suffering. Oh, that breaks my heart. Yeah. Oh, I hate that. Oh, God. Oh, God.

And one of the steel beams supporting the elevated train line was knocked down. A steel beam. A public works horses who were kept in the stalls near the wharf were either smothered in the flood or, quote, so severely injured as their stables collapsed that they were shot by policemen to end their suffering. Oh, that breaks my heart. Yeah. Oh, I hate that. Oh, God. Oh, God.