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With the reading of a poem by Jorge del Nozal he opened the Mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jimenez, the act that Sunday the City Council wanted to pay tribute to the victims of mining accidents.
Most members of the municipal corporation attended an event during which he proceeded to lay a wreath at the fountain roundabout access to the Avenue of the mulberry trees where the monument is the miner.
The event was enlivened by an instrumental ensemble of the Band "Maestro Eugenio Calderon" who played pieces "Air" (II Water Music) by Handel and "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke.
Many residents gathered at the site of the homage that also included speeches by the mayor, Alicia Jimenez, two retired miners, Juan Garcia and Christopher Escudero, who showed the toughness of the profession were given.
The pastor of the church of San Andrés and San Antonio, Francisco Jose Fernandez, recalled in his speech, the iconographic figure of Santa Barbara.
Alicia Jimenez stressed in his speech the reason for the call.
"We gather here to pay tribute to generations of Mazarron.
The miners hills that rise a short distance from here, were the livelihood of many families in the past.
Unfortunately, it was a way of life that had intrinsic consequences were permeating society bitterly workers of this town.
Accidents life of many men who were employed in the mines were charged.
However, death is not daunted because the need had to go down again and again enduring even precarious, "said the mayor who finished saying" do less to collect the proposal of a group of neighbors and make it a fitting tribute. "
This event is incorporated, in February, the schedule of official events of the municipality and joins others as a tribute to Mazarron victims in the concentration camps of Mauthausen held in the garden of Peace Mazarrón every 6 from December.
Accident at Pozo Maria Elena
The reason that February is the date chosen for this tribute claim is explained in what was the biggest tragedy in the mines of Mazarrón.
On February 16, 1893 killed 28 miners in an accident registered with the well Maria Elena unthought of mine.
It was the most tragic of many incidents occurring in the mining hills during the performance of the activity developed mainly since the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
The accident took well Maria Elena pages of national newspapers and even international, as among those killed and mining engineers responsible for European nationality, hired by the company that operated the mines were Mazarrón.
The numerous losses dismayed that date a people who lived with the constant threat of a new accident record.
Casualties continued to occur punishing those families are sustained work in the mine produced, according to the chroniclers collected in precarious employment.
At fatalities they were added later deaths related diseases such as silicosis, pulmonary ailment that affected many miners.
More than a century later and 50 years after the cessation of the activity, neighbors and relatives of those killed or sickened by working at the mine asked the council to pay tribute to serve to remind those victims.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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