Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-06
WILL HONOR DEAD HERD
 AT NACOzAR|
BY FRANK ALLEY.

Nne dppFOdcntnB OccdS1On or dn uil yelling of a beautiful monument 1T the city of Nacozari to the memory of Jesus Garcia, which will be wit messed by hundreds of people on the 7th day of November, suggests a cor rect and elaborate recital of the trag ic incident which at once ended the life and immortalized the memory oi the boy to whom that monument will be dedicated.
 History has recorded many instan ces of absolute sacrifice of ones life for others, and this should have a place in the splendid category.
 The American wno. when sthe frail craft on which he was serving. was penned in by a British man of war managed to steal stealthily aboard the English vessel and put match to her magazine, will be remembered in history though his name cannot he identified.
 Arnold Winklereid as he gathers a half score of Austrian lances in his breast to form a gap that his soldiers might pass over his dead body and take advantage of the breach, will be remembered.
 A hundred other heros will be re- membered, and it is but just that Jesus Garcia, who gave his life to save that of hundred others, should be remembered.
 His Early Days
 When If years of age, in the course of the construction of the Pilares ''Highline" the narrow guage railroad over which streams the product oi the great Pilares mine to Nacozari Jesus Garcia applied to w. L. York for employment, explaining that Dan, forth by whom he had formerly been employed had insisted that he should work in a menial and humilitating capacity.
 Admiring the boys sense of honor York gave him employment as a wa, ter boy. Ever alive and devoted to his duty, Garcia gathered promotion He was hired by York in this first instance at a point within ten feet of where his mangled body was after ward tenderly raised and carried to it's resting place.
 He was next given a shovel, then placed with thesection gang. His devotion to duty was so pronounced and his sense of honor so evident that he was made a brakeman, and from that he rose to fireman, and from that became locomotive engin, ger, which leads up to a recital oi the actual facts concerning this ter rible incident The Pilares Highline is a narrow guage. running from the concentrator in Nacozari to the Pil ares de Nacozari mine, a distance oi six miles.
 At the time the tragedy occurred the old concentrator was in commis sion. The railroad is a three pei cent grade going up from the concen trator- and a car released before it reaches the divide and passes over would inevitably roll back into the reduction plant.
 On the 7th day of November, 1907 it devoIved on Garcia in the usua course of his duty to pull the ore train from the Nacozari concentratol to the mine.
 It occurs that the American con ductor was indisposed and was of duty that day, and that particular ca pacity was not represented.
 One hundred and sixty boxes ot giant powder were to be transferred that day from. the magazine at Nae ozari to the mine, on this trains
 It was the usual and proper prac tice, of course, to swing the powder cars to the rear.
 This day there were six cars o merchandise, and the powder filled two cars. These cars were open ana unprotected as ore cars always are Garcia's Only Mistake
 In switching, Garcia made a mis take. for which he subsequently he roically atoned with his life. Instead of switching the powder cars to tht rear, they were coupled up next tt the engine. There was the fatal ulis take, but he had not had training fl the capacity of a conductor he wa. simply an engineer, and young a that.
 As he started up the first leg o the Y the wind was such that it blev the sparks away from the train, bu when he stretched out on the mex leg, the wind was facing him ant