Where Is Crush Texas
And When It Came Time for the Crash, Stephen Sloan Says an Estimated 40,000 People Descended Upon a Pop-up Town Called Crush, Texas – a Site Just 15 Miles...
And when it came time for the crash, Stephen Sloan says an estimated 40,000 people descended upon a pop-up town called Crush, Texas – a site just 15 miles north of Waco, near the town of West. Sloan is a historian and director of the Baylor Institute for Oral history.
Where did the Crash at Crush take place?
The locomotive boilers explode during impactDateSeptember 15, 1896Location“Crush”, McLennan County, Texas, United StatesCoordinates31.74510°N 97.09957°WCoordinates:31.74510°N 97.09957°WTypeTrain wreck publicity stunt
When was the crash at Crush?
One of the most infamous publicity stunts of all time, “The Crash at Crush,” took place about 3 miles south of West, Texas, featuring two locomotives of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (known as M-K-T or “Katy”) intentionally set on a head-on collision course on Sept. 15, 1896.
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