William Crush and the Engineers

Crush had consul ed about ten of the railroads engineers. They agreed that no one would be any danger as long as the boilers didn't explode. We do not know what those engineers thought as they watched the two old trains, with new coats of bright red and yellow paint on their engines. There was a moment, witnesses said, when everything went quiet, like a bang, and then like a held breath, and then an explosion,. Both boilers blew and steel and timber rocketed hundreds of feet in the air, blasted out and showered on the stands. A flying bolt took someone's eye out. People were trampled, and when the smoke cleared, two people