Sale! A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire
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On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - the largest employer in the region, and known simply as the Company - may have been guilty of murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire
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On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company – the largest employer in the region, and known simply as the Company – may have been guilty of murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a short evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that ‘no more than ten’ men remained in the shafts at the time of their closure, and Company doctors hastened to proclaim them dead. The El Bordo stayed shut for six days. When the mine was opened there was a sea of charred bodies – men who had made it as far as the exit, only to find it shut. The final death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. Now, a century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera tells their story.
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