Maxwell Hellard is an American actor, writer, director, and published author. He grew up simple minded, thinking quite highly of himself. All of that changed with "the accident." The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons (8,700 cubic meters) of molasses, weighing approximately 13,000 short tons ( ...