Ep. 15: The Crash at Crush!
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Crush, Texas was the second largest city in Texas for a few hours in September, 1896. Learn about a Texas-sized publicity stunt that was the biggest and, unfortunately the deadliest in Texas history. It was a train wreck in more ways than one. Travel back to the glory days of rail travel and learn about the great “Crash at Crush!”
The gladiators before the battle
William George Crush
Impact!
Impact!
The aftermath
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| 0:00.0 | How do you know? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. It's April 25th, 2016 and we've just ended the high holy days of Texas history with San Jacenidae occurring last |
| 0:26.1 | week. |
| 0:27.1 | I want to say another thank you to the over 8,000 people listening to wise about Texas. |
| 0:32.4 | I am grateful and amazed at the response |
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| 0:45.0 | One thing I've heard from many of you is how you can support the show financially. |
| 0:49.1 | Well I'm very grateful for that and the show now has a Patreon page at |
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| 1:05.0 | Well, this year was the 180th anniversary of Texas Independence and the first year of Wise About Texas. |
| 1:11.0 | So I spent the past few episodes talking about the revolution and the fight for independence. |
| 1:16.4 | It's now time to branch out and start exploring the many incredible stories of Texas history |
| 1:21.7 | through the decades. I had a listener suggest a great event |
| 1:25.4 | from Texas history that occurred back in 1896 and was a marketing event on a |
| 1:30.0 | true Texas scale. It was a train wreck in more ways than one. So let's take the time |
| 1:36.4 | traveling train back to 1896 and get wise about Texas Texans love to travel. |
| 1:44.0 | There are plenty of places in Texas where a trip to the grocery store is dozens of miles. |
| 1:49.0 | Since its founding, Texans have loved to hit the road. |
| 1:52.0 | It's easy now, of course, We've got a huge network of roads |
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