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Mazarrón recalled this Sunday the victims of mining accidents in an institutional event organized by the City Council next to the monument located at the roundabout access to the Avenue of Las Moreras.
The event began with the performance of the piece "Andante" by J. Adson, in charge of the Music Band of the "Maestro Eugenio Calderón" School.
Then, the mayor, Alicia Jiménez, intervened to mention one of the most tragic moments lived in the municipality as was the accident of the well Maria Elena at the end of the nineteenth century and widely collected by the numerous newspapers of the time.
After the parish priest of San Andrés and San Antonio, Francisco Fernández, María Dolores Jódar, the granddaughter of a worker who died in the Mazarrón mining operations in the early 1960s, was addressed to the audience. Finally, Maravillas Silva recited a Poetry by Juan Durán in homage to the deceased victims in the mining accidents registered in Mazarrón.
After the interventions, the mayor and the pastor accompanied by the members of the municipal corporation present deposited a laurel wreath next to the monument.
This gesture was accompanied by the chords of the Music Band with the interpretation of "Andante y Maestoso" by L. Maurer.
The act culminated with a third musical interpretation, the one of the subject "Allegro" of J. Adson.
This event was incorporated, last year, to the calendar of institutional acts of the municipality and joins others as the tribute to the mazarroneros victims in the concentration camps of Mauthausen, whose memory takes place every December 6 in the Garden of The Peace of Mazarrón.
Accident in the Well María Elena
The reason that the month of February is the date chosen to claim this tribute must be sought in what was the greatest tragedy in the mines of Mazarrón.
On February 16, 1893, 28 miners were killed in an accident at the Maria Elena well of the Impensada mine.
It was the most tragic of many accidents in the mining hills during the development of the activity developed mainly from the late nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century.
The accident at the well Maria Elena occupied pages of newspapers nationally and even internationally, since among the deceased were engineers and mining officials of European nationality, hired by the company that exploited the mines of Mazarrón.
The numerous losses of that date shocked a people who lived with the constant threat of registering a new accident.
The casualties continued to occur punishing those families who had as support the 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 became ill from work in the mine asked the City Council to pay homage to those victims.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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