Nine Photos That Show the Destruction of the Great Boston Molasses Flood
See the aftermath through the eyes of photographer Leslie Jones.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Workers stand in front of a large section of the exploded tank.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
A house was swept under the elevated railroad tracks and destroyed.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Piles of wreckage at a lumber yard lay stuck in the goo.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Boston’s elevated train tracks buckled under the pressure.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
A worker uses an acetylene torch to cut the tank in order to remove it from the muck.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Firehouse No. 31 was knocked off of its foundation and almost pushed into the nearby harbor.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
The flood demolished huge sections of Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue.
Photo via Anthony Mitchell Sammarco/Wikimedia Commons
An ambulance arrives at the scene.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Firemen work to extract a section of the tank.
Learn more about the Great Boston Molasses Flood, 100 years later.
