The area will not be proof against railway tragedies, each on the longitudinal monitor and on the mineral department. The accident early Thursday morning in San Bernardo introduced out of the collective reminiscence the intense occasions that occurred in Pelequén and Sewell in previous a long time.
The newest, on Sunday, March 8, 1987, occurred after a violent collision between a passenger practice and a cargo practice. A human error within the signaling of the roads precipitated the tragedy the place 12 individuals misplaced their lives.
As El Rancagüino reported on its cowl on Monday the ninth, the panorama within the neighborhood of the station was bleak. “A complete of 12 lifeless and 49 injured was the overall of the tragedy that occurred at 5:43 within the morning, when on the Pelequén Station the cargo practice Tremendous with cereals, hit the again of the Tremendous Salón 1030 practice, which was stopped and was certain for the capital,” was what the be aware from that day describes.
Aboard the so-called “Rápido de la Frontera”, passengers gave an account of what they skilled to reporters of the time. “I used to be half asleep, the practice had been stopped at that station for about fifteen minutes, we had traveled all evening from Temuco and all we needed to do was get to Santiago,” commented a kind of affected. What’s extra, he additionally mentioned that “we heard the horn of a practice from behind, I assumed that possibly ours was dangerous they usually had been going to switch us to a different practice,” and that “the blow was very robust, I felt just like the The automotive was going up into the air, my abdomen tightened, similar to the time I used to be on the curler coaster in Fantasilandia, I used to be half dazed, the ability went out, everybody was screaming, there have been hysterical girls and kids crying, nobody knew what was taking place.” .
Firefighters from a number of close by communes attended the scene, resembling Rancagua, Rengo and San Fernando, cities that housed the injured transported from Pelequén. Lots of them had been solely in a position to get out of the twisted iron bars a number of hours after the collision, since after midday that Sunday a specialised group of Santiago Firefighters arrived.
SWEET WATER
Additionally on a Sunday, however in 1960, the inhabitants of Rancagua and Sewell lived a day of terror. On the department line to the mountain city, on February 7, the “Golfista,” because the practice was recognized, derailed and overturned within the La Junta sector, in entrance of the Agua Dulce subject.
Our newspaper printed the next reporting on the tragedy. “A railway catastrophe of nice proportions occurred close to Sewell, within the Mineral El Teniente of the Braden Cooper Co., when a practice filled with descending passengers overturned, leaving a horrific steadiness of dozens of lifeless and injured.” That accident claimed the lives of 33 individuals and left greater than 50 critically injured.
Hours later, within the metropolis, an enormous funeral was held that’s nonetheless remembered by those that lived it, as greater than 30 thousand individuals took to the streets to say goodbye to the sufferer. What’s extra, that Agua Dulce accident rethought the railway service that, years later, was suppressed particularly by the development of the El Cobre Freeway.
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