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On Sunday, Mazarrón celebrated the institutional act of homage to the victims of mining accidents.
Music, words and a laurel wreath to remember those who lost or burdened their lives during their mining work in the municipality's recent past.
The mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez, stressed the importance of an act that spares generations of Mazarron.
The initiative that was born in 2016 from a group of relatives of victims was taken to Plenary by the municipal government team and incorporated into the set of institutional events.
Next to the roundabout access to the Avenida de las Moreras, where the monument to the miner is located, attended by members of the municipal corporation, representatives of the families of the deceased and residents of the municipality.
The act began with the interpretation of the piece 'La Conquista de 1492' by Vangelis / Arr .: Willy Hauvast.
by the Youth Band of the Musical Association Maestro Eugenio Calderón.
After the intervention of the mayor, the parish priest of the churches of San Andrés and San Antonio de Mazarrón, Antonio José Martínez, and Francisco Navarro, as spokespersons for the families, addressed those present.
After the interventions, a laurel wreath was placed in the fountain at the rotunda, while the band played the piece 'Pompa y Circunstancia' by E. Elgar.
Finally, after closing the act, the play 'La vida es bella' by Nicola Piovani / Arr .: Claudio Mandonico was performed.
28 deceased in the accident of María Elena Well
The reason why the month of February is the chosen date to claim this tribute is to look for it in what was the greatest tragedy that occurred in the mines of Mazarrón.
On February 16, 1893, 28 miners lost their lives in an accident registered in the María Elena well of the Impensada mine.
It was the most tragic of many disasters that occurred in the mining hills during the development of the activity developed mainly from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
The accident of María Elena well occupied pages of newspapers of national or even international circulation, since among the deceased were engineers and miners responsible for European nationality, hired by the company that exploited the mines of Mazarrón.
The numerous losses of that date dismayed a town that lived with the constant threat of registering a new accident.
The losses continued to occur punishing those families who had their livelihood as work in the mine produced, according to the chroniclers, in situations of precarious work.
Deaths in accidents were later added to deaths due to diseases such as silicosis, a lung disease that affected many miners.
More than a century later and 50 years after the cessation of activity, neighbors and relatives of those who lost their lives or fell ill due to work at the mine asked the City Council to pay a tribute that would serve to remind those victims.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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