You may already know the caption of Casey Jones , the string engineer who lost his own life redeem his rider during a collision in 1900 . Now , meet Jesús García , the Casey Jones of Mexico .
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On November 7 , 1907 , García , a 23 - year - erstwhile brakeman , was taking a break in the freight yard in Nacozari , Sonora , when he noticed smoke in the air . García then see that sparks from his gear ’s lamp chimney stack had blown back onto the first automobile , igniting the hayon top . And the day ’s cargo made all the difference : the train was transporting70 boxesof dynamite , detonating equipment , and priming . That was bad enough on its own — but let the power train explode in the train grand amongst other gas tanks and dynamite store would have been even bad .
Rather than melt or take cover charge to save himself from the impending explosion , García hop back on plug-in and threw the train into reversal , drive full - steam to get the doomed wagon train as far away from civilisation as possible . His intention , somespeculate , was to climb up when the train made it to an uninhabited sphere that was n’t too far back on the route .
regrettably , García did n’t make it that far . The train had go about 4 nautical mile when the explosives blew . It ’s said that a exhibitor of dust and crushed rock pelted the ground for several minute of arc subsequently , and all they ever find of the heroic brakeman was a single rush . Thirteen people pop off , which was still tragic , but a huge advance on the number that would have lose their lives had the entire grounds gone up .
In admiration , the township change its name to Nacozari de García , then exact up a aggregation to construct a repository honor their fallen hero . The governmentdonated $ 50,000to the cause , and today an detailed train memorial , obelisk , and gravestone still remain firm in Nacozari .
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García has also been eternise in a tribe birdsong , which goes like this :
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