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Article: TRAIN STUNT A BIZARRE BIT OF HISTORY `CRASH AT CRUSH' WON PUBLICITY, BUT LOST LIVES WEREN'T IN PLAN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 7, 1996
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One hundred years ago this month, on a track just north of Waco, two massive steam engines hurled their way headlong across the Texas prairie and exploded into each other, ripping steel, gushing steam, twisting track - and taking lives.
All but the lost lives was planned.
It was the infamous ``Crash at Crush,'' sometimes subtitled the ``Famous Duel of the Iron Monsters.'' It was a public relations stunt designed to make the Missouri-Kansas & Texas Railroad a household name, and to that end it succeeded.
The witnesses are all gone now. Not many people even remember it ever happened, except maybe for a few old-timers and the occasional historian. ...