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The Mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, accompanied by the spokespersons of the three municipal groups, as well as councilors of the government team, and the family that lived in the house of the Puente del Poyo, discovered yesterday a plaque tribute to the flood of 1913 .
A plaque that can be read
In the town of Jumilla not even a drop fell, but what is the northern part of the municipality, from the Pedrera Montesinos, from the Farmhouse at the end of Yecla and from the Sierra del Buey to Ardal, fell so much rain and hail in that half hour, which devastated crops, plantations and agricultural facilities.
A Jumilla city waters reach the confluence of four boulevards: the Pedrera, that of the Farmhouse, that of Jimena and the Gamellón.
Devastating in its path bridges Molino de la Parra, the Molinico of the of the two eyes (near the Baths of Campa) and the railway line, built three years earlier, uprooted it and slammed on the chapel of St. Augustine.
Only endured the stake of the waters of the Poyo Bridge, which only tore the blocks at the top.
There were no injuries and only mules dragged "Garrucho", housed next to the Baths of Campa, who went to the river Segura.
The losses were estimated at 1,536,414 pesetas (from 1913) and the major concerns of the City Council were to restore and repair the infrastructure of the irrigation network, for which asked owners Water Jugs, 5 pesetas for each jug, old measure of volume, to repair the irrigation network.
To measure the magnitude of the flood, when the stones were placed on top Poyo Bridge, one of them was an inscription, which is now recovering and which reads: "Walker, walker / when you pass this bridge / that so far arrived / the flood of 1913. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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