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To Save by Speed: Jesús García the Hero of Nacozari

In 1896 the fate of the Mexican town Nacozari was dramatically changed when abundant copper mines were found nearby. This land was owned by Moctezuma Copper Corporation and to meet the high demand for copper the town was expanded to include more homes, stores, workshops, warehouses, furnaces, and facilities to process the raw ore being extracted from deep within the ground. In 1899 a railroad was built to bring the material into Nacozari which quickly transformed into a bustling mining community that approximately 5,000 people called home. After stopping in town the material would continue on the railway to the state of Sonora before making its final stop in Douglas, Arizona.

One resident of Nacozari was twenty-three year old Jesús García (sometimes written as Jesús García Corona) who moved there with his mother and seven siblings in 1898. At the age of seventeen he began working for the Moctezuma Copper Corporation mining railway, first working as a waterboy before moving up the ranks to switchman, brakeman, fireman, and finally engine driver. García was very popular in his town. He was a hard worker, dedicated to his family, and he would regularly hire bands to serenade his fiancé, María de Jesús Soqui. He was deeply appreciated by his employers, so much so that in 1904 the company paid for him and several coworkers to attend the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jesús García. Image via wikipedia.org.

On November 7th 1907 García arrived at work only to be informed that the normal conductor of the train had been admitted to the hospital so he was on his own for the day. Undeterred, García went about his work, managing the rail cars to and from the copper mines several times before heading into town to have lunch with his mother. At approximately 2pm that afternoon García was again headed toward the mine when he noticed the unthinkable. There were strict rules that if dynamite was being transported it had to be loaded into the rear cars of the train, but today the explosives were sitting in the front cars with the rear cars filled with hay. Sparks from the train’s chimney stack blew back onto the front cars and a box of dynamite was smoking with no way to stop it.

Locomotive #2 of the Moctezuma Copper Corporation, an engine regularly used by Jesús García. Image via mexconnect.com.  

García immediately knew he and everyone in town was in extreme danger. If he went to the mine the explosion would ignite the railway company’s entire supply of dynamite that was housed there as well as the gas tanks, an eruption that would undoubtedly wipe Nacozari off the map and kill everyone. If he simply abandoned the train it would run out of steam, roll back to town, and erupt there. He immediately ordered everyone off the train and he made the fast decision to drive the time bomb backwards as fast as he could, taking it back through and then beyond Nacozari and out to a secondary loading area known as Camp 6. Once at Camp 6 he could leap from the elevated train letting it race backwards on its own until it would run out of steam and explode in the wilderness that lay between railway stops.  

García sped the train backwards, making it approximately four miles out of town and just edging into the region of Camp 6 when the train erupted into a fireball. The blast sent twisted metal through the air and it rained down for miles, nearly all windows in Nacozari shattered, the explosion was heard as far as ten miles from the site, and twelve people in the vicinity of the surge were killed, including García. He was one week shy of his twenty-fourth birthday.

The town of Nacozari took steps to commemorate the local man who saved their town and thousands of lives. Two years later a permanent memorial was unveiled to commemorate “The Hero of Nacozari” and the town was officially renamed Nacozari de García. Ten years after his death his few remains were interred at his monument, he was named a Hero of Humanity by the American Red Cross, and in 1944 the Mexican government declared that the National Day of the Railroad Worker would be celebrated every year on November 7th.

Monument to Jesús García. Image via wikipedia.org.  

Monument to Jesús García. Image via stampcommunity.org.

Today García’s name can be found all over Mexico in street names, statues, stadiums, and in song. The ballads “Máquina 501” by Pancho "el Charro" Avitia and “Jesús García” sung by Arizona State’s official balladeer, Dolan Ellis tell the story of the railroad worker who sacrificed himself to save his town.

A version of “Máquina 501” by Pancho "el Charro" Avitia can be heard here with translation below.

A version of “Jesús García” by Dolan Ellis can be heard here.

Máquina 501

Engine 501

rolls through Sonora.

And the brakeman who

won’t sigh will cry.

One fine Sunday, gentlemen,

’round three o’clock,

Jesús Garcia sweetly

caressed his mother.

“Soon I must depart,

kind mother,

the train whistle

draws the future near.”

Arriving at the station

a whistle blew shrill.

The wagon with dynamite

menaced with its roof afire.

The fireman says,

“Jesús, let’s scram!

that wagon behind

will burn us to hell.”

Jesús replies,

“That I cannot own–

this conflagration

will kill the whole town!”

So he throws it in reverse

to escape downhill

and by the sixth mile

into God’s hands he’d arrived.

From that unforgettable day

you’ve earned the holy cross,

you’ve earned our applause.

Jesús, you’re our hero.

Engine 501

rolls through Sonora.

And the brakeman

who won’t sigh will cry.

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Central States Manufacturing Inc. is expanding with a new 53,600-square-foot manufacturing facility in St. Peters, Mo.

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