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Huge molasses tank explodes in North End; 11 dead, 50 hurt [Boston Post, January 16, 1919]
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Firemen standing in thick molasses after the disaster
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Tank cut into sections with acetylene torch in search of bodies underneath Molasses Disaster
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Cutting the tank with acetylene torch, Molasses Disaster
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Fire House no. 31 damaged, Molasses Disaster. 1:00pm
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Site of Molasses Disaster showing lumberyard to left near Charleston Bridge
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Twisted elevated structure on Atlantic Ave., damaged in Molasses Disaster
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Boston elevated twisted into new shapes, after Molasses Disaster
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Wreckage under the elevated where many express trucks parked, Molasses Disaster
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Section of tank after Molasses Disaster explosion. 1:00pm
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Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site
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Molasses tank explosion injures 50 and kills 11 [Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1919]
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Autos and wagons blown to pieces [Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1919]
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Martin Clougherty awoke in sea of sticky molasses [Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1919]
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Looking across a sea of molasses [Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1919]
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The wrecked elevated structure on Commercial Street [Boston Daily Globe, January 16, 1919]
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Eleven dead, more than sixty injured, buildings and L tracks wrecked by explosion of big molasses tank [Boston Herald, January 16, 1919]
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Police scout theory of bomb plot in molasses tank disaster [Boston Herald, January 16, 1919]
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General view of the wreckage at site of the mammoth molasses container [Boston Herald, January 16, 1919]
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How the elevated structure crumpled up [Boston Herald, January 16, 1919]
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Site of explosion before disaster as seen from bathing beach [Boston Herald, January 16, 1919]