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

yelling of a beautiful monument fl the city of Nacozari to the memor. of Jesus Garcia. which will be wit messed by hundreds of people on ths 7th day of November. suggests a cor rect and elaborate recital of the trag ic incident which at once ended tn, life and immortaiized the memory O the boy to whom that monument vii be dedicated.
 History has recorded many instan ces of absolute sacrifice of one's life for others. and this should have $ place in the splendid category.
 The American wno, when .the frai craft on which he was serving. was Ipenned in by British man of war managed to steal stealthiIy aboard the English vessel and put a match to her magazine, will be remembered in history though his name cannot be 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 tha; Jesus Garcia, who gave his life to save that of @ hundred others, should be remembered.
 His Early Days
 When 14 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 beer employed had insisted that he should work in a menial and humilitatine lcapacity.
 Admiring the boys sense of honor York gave him employment as a wa ter boy. Ever alive and devoted tc his duty. Garcia gathered promotion He was hired by York in this first instance at a point within ten feel of where his mangled body was after ward tenderiy raised and carried to it's resting place.
 He was next given shovel, theI placed with thesection gang. His devotion to duty was so pronounced and his sense of honor so evident that he was made brakeman. ana from that he rose to fireman, ant from that became a locomotive engin ger, which leads up to recital oi the actual facts concerning this ter rible incident. The Pilares Highlint is narrow guage. running from ths concentrator in Nacozari to the Pil ares de Nacozari mine. distance o six miles.
 At the time the tragedy occurred the old concentrator was in commis sion The railroad is three pel cent grade going up from the concen trator and a car released before ] reaches the divide and passes ovel would inevitably roll back into thu reduction plant.
 On the 7th day of November, 1907 it devolved on Garcia in the usua course Of his duty to pull the orr 
 train from the Nacozari concentrate to the mine.
 It occurs that the American con ductor was indisposed and was of duty that day. and that particular ca Ipacity was not represented. One hundred and sixty boxes o giant powder were to be transferre' that day from the magazine at Nae ozari to :he mine. on this train.s It was the usual and proper prac tice, of course. to swing the powde Icars to the rear.
 This day there were six cars O merchandise. and the powder fiilet 1.-two cars These cars were open an' unprotected as ore cars always are
 esrcia's Only Mistake
 In switching, Garcia made a mds take. for which he subsequently he roieally atoned with his life. Insteai of switching the powder cars to tn rear. they were coupled up next t 1.-the engine. There was the fatal mis take, but he had not had training il the capacity of a conductors 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 ble1 the sparks away from the train. bu when he stretched out on the mex leg, the wind was facing him an blew the sparks back on the car Being a three and one-ha1f per cen grade, the engine labors heavily an your contributor can testify to tn severity of the cinder storm whic falls on the first two cars. The current story that a bale ( hay was on one of the cars of powde is pure fiction.
 The train had not proceeded nor than about six hundred feet, when was discovered tha one of the pow der cars was on fire. Another hero of the incident wh escaped and who deserves the grea est measure of credit, is Francisc