Mazarrón
will remember the victims of mining accidents Sunday 19th February, at
an event organized by the City Council that will take place from midday next to
the monument located at the roundabout by access to the Avenida de Las Moreras.
The event will
begin with the performance of the piece "Andante" by J. Adson, in
charge of the Music Band of the "Maestro Eugenio Calderón" School.
Next, the Mayor, Alicia Jiménez, will address a few words to those present,
before handing over to the Parish Priest of San Andrés y San Antonio, Francisco
Fernández .
Afterwards, Maravillas
Silva will recite a poem in homage to the victims who died in the mining
accidents registered in Mazarrón.
After the
interventions, the Mayor, the Parish Priest and members of the Municipal
Corporation that are attending the ceremony will proceed to deposit a laurel
wreath next to the monument. This gesture will be accompanied by the chords of
the Music Band with the interpretation of "Andante y Maestoso" by L.
Maurer.
The event will conclude 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 Jardín de la Paz de Mazarrón
Accident in
the María Elena Well
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 Maria
Elena Well 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 the people who lived with the constant threat of
having to register a new accident. The casualties continued to occur punishing
those families who worked in the mines, 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 ceasing the mining activity, neighbours
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.
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