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Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America's Deadliest Publicity Stunt

by Mike Cox
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781540240286
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: History Press Library Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press Library Editions
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 226
  • Original Price: USD 32.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 472 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Railroads / History and Disasters & Disaster Relief

On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging ground for a publicity stunt ramming two trains together at top speed. Showrunner and Katy Railroad official William Crush thought he had planned for every contingency. But when elephant-sized chunks of steam locomotive began raining down into the packed stands, the extravaganza quickly unraveled into one of the Lone Star State's most confounding tragedies. The soon-to-be famous Scott Joplin commemorated the debacle in "The Great Crush Collision March," and entrepreneurs like "Head-On Joe" Connolly of Iowa continued the tradition of the staged locomotive duel for decades. But the stupefying incident still slipped into the back pages of Texas lore. In the first-ever book on the subject, writer-historian Mike Cox finally tells the full story of the Crash at Crush.

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