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The February 16, 1893 killed 28 miners in an accident registered with the well Maria Elena de la unexpected mine.
It was the most tragic of many events which have occurred in the mining hills during the development of the activity mainly from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
The accident took well Mary Elena pages of national newspapers and even internationally as among the dead miners and engineers responsible for European nationality hired by the company that operated the mines were Mazarrón.
The heavy losses that date dismayed the people who lived with the constant threat of a new accident record.
Casualties continued to occur punishing families who are sustained work in the mine produced as chroniclers collected in precarious employment.
At fatalities they were added later deaths from diseases arising as silicosis, pulmonary ailment that affected many miners.
More than a century later and 50 years after the cessation of the activity, neighbors and family members of those killed or sickened by working at the mine asked the council to pay tribute to serve to remind those victims.
The proposal was presented and taken in full, on Tuesday, by the spokesmen of the government team.
Following discussion proposal was approved unanimously by all political groups.
Consequently, every February a tribute will take place at the source of mining at the connection of the avenue of mulberry trees with the beginning of the RMD-4.
The regular full month of January also approved unanimously and after modifications, the proposed Municipal Independent Group Mazarrón Union monitoring and enforcement of the Edict of burning of agricultural organic waste and enabling ground to burn.
Another proposal approved by a majority, was carried by Heritage on Wider Adherence to centralized procurement system including Electric Supply.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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