Dark tide : the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 / Stephen Puleo.

By:

Puleo, Stephen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston, Mass : Beacon Press, c2003.Description: xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0807050202 (alk. paper)
0807050210

DDC classification:

363.11/9664118 21

LOC classification:

F73.5 .P97 2003

Contents:

Prologue: Isaac's Demons -- Pt. 1. A Monster in Our Midst -- 1. Deadline on the Waterfront -- 2. Neighborhood Weeping -- 3. Along the Gulf Stream -- 4. War and Anarchy -- 5. Heavy Load -- Pt. 2. Waves of Terror -- 6. Before... -- 7. Engulfed! -- 8. "I Am Prepared to Meet my God" -- 9. Darkening Skies -- Pt. 3. David vs. Goliath -- 10. "One of the Worst Catastrophes" -- 11. Factor of Safety -- 12. "A Sordid Story"

Review: "Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents in a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. When the tide receded, a section of the city's North End had been transformed into a war zone. The Great Boston Molasses Flood claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals, injured more than a hundred, and caused widespread destruction."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.119664118 PUL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900179442

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.

"Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents in a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. When the tide receded, a section of the city's North End had been transformed into a war zone. The Great Boston Molasses Flood claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals, injured more than a hundred, and caused widespread destruction."

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