The engines rushed toward each other, traveling at 50 mph. The conductors started both trains before leaping to safety. The Galveston Daily News reported, "Men, women and children, lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers, artisans, clerks, representing every class and every grade of society, were scattered around over the hillsides, or clustered around the lunch stands, discussing with eager anticipation the exciting event that they had come so far to see." In the pop-up town of "Crush," Texas, on September 15, 1896, his plan became a reality when 40,000 spectators flooded the area, temporarily making it the state's second-biggest city. He worked for a railroad and wanted to entertain people by driving two locomotives into each other.
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