Sheet music became commonplace in homes starting about 1840. Postcards came along some years later, but when the songwriters put their pens to a score postcards and music were a perfect match.
This story is about a cave exploration that went horribly wrong. The news of Floyd Collins’s plight spread quickly, and a rescue operation was launched but failed despite the best efforts of many. Collins was never freed from the cave, and died from exposure and starvation, but he wasn’t the only victim of this calamity.