Free Case File: A Wave That Was Not Water (Great Molasses Flood)

A free printable case file you can actually sit with. Sources already filtered. Exhibits in order. Built to read alone, print, or open with friends and family — not a skim you could cobble together from a search.

This record was kept. Case CF-2026-10-015. Read it with the lights on.

On a mild January day in 1919 — the Boston molasses flood of 1919 — a steel tank on Boston's waterfront split open and sent about 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the North End. Twenty-one people died. The company said anarchists did it. A court auditor spent years hearing testimony and said otherwise. This free case file follows great molasses flood facts the record kept: the 21 death certificates, the auditor's findings, a modern engineer's look at the steel, the physics of why molasses would not let go, and an honest list of where the accounts disagree.

You get six sourced exhibits, a timeline, a clear note on where the legend outruns the evidence, and a full source list so you know what you are reading. Credible compiled research — free to download, print, and pass around.

• Format: printable PDF · US Letter · 12 pages
• Case: CF-2026-10-015
• Price: Free
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