Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dillman, Lisa

Description

1. 104 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. "On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis -- the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company -- may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence."--Amazon.com summary.

Uniform title

1. Incendio de la mina El Bordo

Alternative title

1. Incendio de la mina El Bordo

Subject

1. United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company > Officials and employees > Accidents
2. United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company
3. 1900-1999
4. Mine fires > Mexico > Pachuca > History > 20th century
5. Industrial accidents
6. Mine fires
7. Pachuca (Mexico) > History > 20th century
8. Mexico > Pachuca

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. El Bordo -- That day -- The wait -- The survivors -- The women's fire -- The expert report -- The grave -- The many days that followed -- Acknowledgments.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Originally published as El inciendio de la mina El Bordo by Editorial Periférica, Cáceres, Spain.