Great Crush Collision March Sheet Music (1896)

ID: 1678 ~ Source: Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music, Crouch Fine Arts Library, Baylor University. Made accessible by Eric Ames via http://blogs.baylor.edu/digitalcollections/2012/04/19/scott-joplin%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cgreat-crush-collision-march-and-the-memorialization-of-a-marketing-spectacle/
This file appears in: Crash at Crush
Great Crush Collision March Sheet Music (1896)

Although it is unclear if Scott Joplin witnessed the locomotive collision or was told about the event, the great ragtime pianist and composer immortalized the crash through music. The piano piece, Great Crush Collision March, was copyrighted thirty days after the Crash at Crush in 1896, and was dedicated to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad.

This file appears in: Crash at Crush

By Terri Jo Ryan
One of the most infamous publicity stunts of all time, "The Crash at Crush," took place about 3 miles south of West, Texas, featuring two locomotives of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (known as M-K-T or "Katy") intentionally set on a…