Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...next act was the blowing up of the State House, after which the dastardly Sophomores, forming in line, marched out towards Cambridge, "tearing down fences, demolishing signs, and defacing dwelling-houses"* and slaughtering such a number of persons between Bowdoin Square and Charles River that a great tidal-wave of blood arose and swept away six thousand dwelling-houses from the West End of Boston, drowning, it is estimated, at least ten thousand souls...