Crush, Texas

Another day in history.

On this day in 1896, the celebrated crash at Crush occurred 15 miles north of Waco.

It was a publicity stunt for the Katy Railroad.

Two railroad engines were deliberately crashed head-on at the non-existent town of Crush.

By nightfall, the site was abandoned.

In the early 20th century, Scott Joplin commemorated the event in his song, The Great Crush Collision.

And that happened this day in 1896, called the celebrated Crash at Crush Collision.

Couldn't find out why they would do this, but it turned out to be a great idea.

And finally, I did say that some of the things that happened this week in history were quite silly.

And the crash at Crush is certainly an example of that.

This week in history, on the 15th of September in 1856, we cover this in Quarters History Episode 8, if you want to listen to it in more detail.

The crash at Crush was a publicity publicity stunt wherein two high speed trains were deliberately crashed into each other for the enjoyment of an onlooking audience of tens of thousands who came specifically to see this take place.

And in an outcome that no one could have possibly foreseen, the crash not only obliterated the two trains, but also caused debris and wreckage to be thrown into the crowd after a huge explosion, killing two spectators and injuring a number of others.

Who could have possibly guessed that crashing two high speed trains into each other deliberately would be a dangerous and deadly thing to do? they still did it the crash at crash quarter-hour history episode 8 apart from the fact that you know two people died it is a very silly and very amusing story anyway on to today's main topic and let me tell you this one is a cracker some proper old school half-arse history nonsense today stories like this are harder and harder to find these days so i'm very very grateful to alert listener richard jaggers for sending this one in Because on the 16th of September 1560, this week in history, a man who claimed to be the missing Martin Guare was executed for adultery and fraud.