Asheville, July 2—Grasping the throttle of his locomotive to roll the westbound Carolina Special, crack Southern railway flier, from the Asheville yards tonight at 8:10 o’clock, John Barry, 55, veteran engineer of Knoxville, was stricken and died a few minutes later as he was being lifted from the cab by trainmen who gathered at the call of the fireman. The passengers in the train knew nothing of the death, and after a slight delay the train started on its journey.
Mr. Barry, who was old in the service of the Southern, had been on this run for some time and up until the moment he was stricken, was apparently in the best of health.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 3, 1926
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