North End IX
North End IX
The Great Molasses Flood left the North End with ruined elevator trains,
lost lives, and an enormous sticky mess. Citizens were outraged and
demanded that the US Industrial Alcohol Company pay the city damages
for the disaster. Boston was once known as the distilling capital of the US,
and molasses were America's primary sweetener at the time. Many have
hypothesized that the flood was caused by the overloading of the molasses
storage tank due to the impending Prohibition. Eventually the US Industrial
Alcohol Campany did pay a million dollars in damages to the city of Boston.
