On a warm September day in 1896, a quiet field about 15 miles north of Waco became the epicenter of one of the most unusual and tragic spectacles in Texas history: the Crash at Crush, a staged head-on ...
ABOVE: Two locomotives collide head-on in a publicity stunt in September 1896 at Crush, Texas. The photographer lost an eye seconds after this shot was taken, when the two trains’ boilers exploded.