In Long Steel Rail, Norm Cohen says that "The Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (Wreck of the Norfolk & Western Cannon Ball) was a ballad about an accident between two trains, one on the Norfolk & Western, the other on the Atlantic Coast Line, June 27, 1903, near Dunlop, VA. The poem was written by Cleburne C. Meeks and set to music by Carson Robison (under the pseudonym White). It was recorded by Vernon Dalhart on Columbia 15378-D and Edison 52533I couldn't find it on any available Dalhart album.

-Joe-